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"Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul." 

Friedrich Froebel

Activities at Sunny Buttons!

Here are a selection of some of the activities you will find at Sunny Buttons.

Activities

 

The following activities will be distributed throughout the week, but will remain flexible.  

Each week will have a theme/story attached, but activities will be influenced by children’s interest at the time.  

    

Indoor Activities

 

  • Themed Activities  

  • Story time 

  • Music 

  • Singing 

  • Baking/cooking 

  • Painting/ Craft 

  • Sticky pictures/collages 

  • Number work  

  • Drawing 

  • Play-dough 

  • Playing board games 

  • Beads/jewellery making 

  • Watching videos/TV programmes (age dependant) 

  • Using the computer for games, learning or homework 

  • Dressing up/role play 

  • Sewing (supervised) 

  • Crochet/Knitting 

  • Candle making 

  • Glass painting 

  • Marbling 

  • I also have various toys available for the children to play with such as jigsaws, construction bricks and blocks, cars and mat, Trains, dressing up clothes, doctors and vets set, dolls, play kitchen & food.    

 

Outdoor Activities

 

  • Messy Play 

  • Sand/ Water 

  • Garden Play 

  • Gardening 

  • Woodland Walks/Exploring 

  • Parks (Local) 

  • Music and movement 

  • Ball games 

  • Picnics 

  • The library 

  • Soft play gyms 

  • Local toddler groups 

  • The shops/post office 

  • Feed the ducks and horses 

  • Outdoors, I have a variety of equipment such as balls, skittles, skipping ropes, slides, a sand pit and a play house.     

  • If the weather is miserable, we will still attempt to venture out, providing the children are suitably dressed.  

Key activities and their links to the EYFS

 

Below are a selection of documents which are split into the age phases determined by the EYFS. Within each phase there are a list of activities centered on 4 key areas, Water Play, Construction, Sand Play and Tuff Tray Play.  All of the activities in the documents are on offer at Sunny Buttons.  These activities then link with the EYFS, enabling parent's to see what their child/ren are focusing on.   

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