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Splish, splash….

Imogen was soaked in a flash!!!! Little water babies are definitely what we have here at Jollies…. A tuff tray, some water and some containers are, it turns out, the perfect recipe for an awesome time. Our babies experimented with swooshing the water around the tray with their hands, scooping it up with the containers, …

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Garden centre loveliness!!

We can safely say that the recent purchases made for Free-Flow have led to some VERY invested role-play. Our children have fully embraced garden centre life and we have seen some wonderful conversational exchanges as well as some excellent counting and weighing, some careful cutting and pruning, some brilliant writing and some fabulous plant care …

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Garden centre….

Continuing to follow our children’s interests involved a shopping trip to Country Baskets and B&M for Kirstan and Tracey, as you know that at Jollies our children’s wish is our command!! A little bit of time, love and imagination later and the Jolly Garden Centre was open for business…. xxxx

Our interests grow and grow….

…..and lead to an exciting adventure! Free-Flow are currently obsessed with growing things after planting their sunflower seeds at nursery a few weeks ago. We can’t wait to see how these sunflowers continue to grow when they are planted in their gardens at home (we are hoping for lots of lovely photos in the future …

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With a bang and a clang and a bash and a splash

…. a storm is cooked up in the mud kitchen by our babies!! They were super proud of themselves too when some of them managed to press the button on the water dispenser to make it pour out some lovely water (as we all know that water makes a mud pie even better!! ) xxxx

Bubble, bubble, bubble… POP!!!!

Katie and her little ones had fun blowing bubbles together and then, once they were floating, catching them to make them pop! An excellent way to have fun in the and, as you all know there’s ALWAYS method in our madness here at Jollies, and blowing bubbles gets the mouth moving in different ways and …

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Heatwave

We are having a splashing time before the sun gets too hot…. Why have one paddling pool when you can have 4?!?!?! xxxx

Sensory Exploration

We just love exploring all the exciting resources on offer using our senses here at Jollies… so many different textures, so many different colours… What will we do with them? How will we choose to play? Xxxx

Baskets full of fun!

When you’ve got a room full of toys but all a little one truly wants is……..the basket!! Hiding ways and peekaboo days spent giggling together here at Jollies xxxx

Springtime

Blossoming days and potion-making ways Our beautiful blossom tree has provided us with some wonderfuly imaginative play opportunities…. from being the ‘confetti’ at our weddings to the main ingredient in our potion making… We springtime here at Jollies xxxx