Stephen’s winter wonderland has sparked even further Christmas excitement throughout Jollies, but will we all see any real snow on Christmas Day we wonder?!?! xxxx

A HUGE thank you everybody for all your kind donations to our Jolly food bank collection… Sian has just dropped off our donation and we hope it will make some people’s Christmases just that little bit brighter Thank you for your kindness everybody xxxx

This morning our Free-Flow children went on a Christmas walk to deliver a Christmas present to our friends at Midland House. They met us on their doorstep and we sang three Christmas songs to them all too

Our children sang ‘When Santa got stuck up the chimney’, ‘Christmas pudding’ and ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ with gusto!

They crossed the roads safely and greeted passersby by wishing them all a ‘Merry Christmas’.

We think we certainly brought cheer to our friends at Midland House and all the people we passed by in Woodlesford too

After singing it was time for a well-deserved extra special treat snack of a chocolate mini roll and a drink of water before we set to exploring the play equipment at our local park.

We then made our way back to Jollies, a little tired, but just in time for lunch… ready to recharge our batteries with some fuel provided by James’ yummy scrummy risotto!!

What a brilliant morning we have all had together xxxx

From wonderful wintry scenes to the best festive play dough… Kirstan had been busy making her room extra magical xxxx

You can tell the countdown to Christmas is on when Imogen’s festive hair makes an appearance….

This was yesterday’s superb effort!!!!! xxxx

What a wonderful morning we have had today here at Jollies….. we heard sleigh bells ringing and then suddenly Santa appeared!!

We were soooooo lucky as he’d brought along Mini Helper Elf Josie and Big Helper Elf Jessica…. They helped Santa find his pressies for all of our children and Team Jollies too.

Our children were so excited to see Santa and they were so polite as they thanked him for their pressies and Santa was sooooo lucky as he was given lots of high fives too!!!

We sang him a song which he could relate to, all about him getting stuck, and we even gave him a present to thank him for sparing the time to come and visit us all here at Jollies in his very busy build up to the big day!! He even confirmed that all our children are on the nice list before he left and they’ve all got a sticker to prove this… xxxx

Thank you, James, for our Jolly delicious Christmas dinner (number one!) today… the crackers have been pulled, the scrummy food has been served and all that’s left to do is tuck in and enjoy!!!

It’s definitely yummy, scrummy in our tummies and we can’t wait for number two on Thursday!!

(This is great preparation for the ones we’ll all be having with our families at home soon and the sprouts will be familiar by then and will hopefully be very well tucked into at home too )

Christmas dinner day one is here and our yummy dinner is about to arrive…………!!!!!!! xxx

We caught lots of fish!!!!

So much amazing number recognition, careful counting and fine motor skill manipulation combined with excellent hand/eye coordination as all the fish were caught!!!! Xxxx

When teamwork makes the dream work and a problem shared is a problem solved!!

Little brains were thinking and little fingers collaborating to fill in the pieces of this inset puzzle!! xxxx