Mother Goose Day Nursery

29/05/2026

Penguin’s 🐧

Happy 18th birthday Carmel! 🎉🥳

Glow stick party 🎈

Today in Penguin’s we have been celebrating our lady Carmel’s 18th birthday, where we decided to throw her a glow stick party, which also lead on from the children’s interest in the glow sticks at the moment too. We had a blast waving the glow sticks around, playing with the balloons, dancing and trying on all the different birthday props too!

The INTENT of this activity was to celebrate Carmel’s birthday alongside following on from the children’s interests too. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this by having different glow sticks and birthday resources to explore throughout the activity! The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their physical skills when getting active alongside having fun and celebrating together.

All in all we have had a fabulous day celebrating Carmel’s birthday and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in many different ways such as:

🌈Physical development 🌈

🎉Communication and language 🎉

🌈Personal, social and emotional development 🌈

🥳Literacy🥳

🌈Understating the world 🌈

🎉Expressive arts and design 🎉

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AT HOME 🏡 you could get some glow sticks and have a glow stick party at bath time to make it even more fun!

Wishing Carmel a big Happy birthday this weekend… Have the most amazing time celebrating your 18th birthday! 🎊 🩷

Well done Everyone!

Megan, Ella, and Carmel x

29/05/2026

Ducklings🐥

Let’s go bowling….🎳 🤍✨

Today in Ducklings we have been super busy bowling using the metallic balls and reels. We used pipes and wooden planks and even the wobble board to roll the balls over. The interest of this activity came from Child LL and BT recent discovery of rolling back and forth with Angel and Amanda yesterday🎳🤍✨

INTENT🎳
Our aim was to encourage curiosity, problem solving and early physical development through open-ended exploration. We wanted the children to investigate movement, speed and direction while developing their confidence and coordination.🎳

IMPLEMENTATION🤍
The children were invited to roll metal balls down pipes, along wooden planks and across the wobble board, experimenting with different heights, angles and surfaces. The metallic reels along the pipes created exciting sounds and movements that captured the children’s attention and encouraged repeated exploration. The ladies supported the activity through using language such as “fast,” “slow,” “roll” and “bounce,” while allowing the children to lead their own play and discoveries.🤍

IMPACT✨
The children showed great engagement and concentration throughout the activity. They developed their hand-eye coordination, balance and fine motor skills The children demonstrated curiosity, excitement and perseverance as they tested different ways to move the balls and watched where they would travel next.✨

🎳Physical Development🎳
🤍Personal, Social and Emotional🤍
✨Communication and Language✨
🎳Literacy🎳
🤍Mathematics🤍
✨Understanding the World✨

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Lilli x

28/05/2026

Penguin’s 🐧

Fruit Skewer’s 🍌🍊🍓🍇🥝🍍

What is your favourite fruit?… 🍌or 🍓

Today in Penguin’s we have been making some yummy snacks to enjoy with each other in the lovely sunny weather. We decided we would make some fruits skewers today leading on from out conversation yesterday about healthy eating and the different fruits we like to eat. So we decided we would make these to develop our life skills when learning to chop the fruits whilst also allowing us to enjoy a healthy snack together. The children firstly washed their hands where we spoke about hygiene when making food. Before listening to the ladies talk about how to safely use the knife and how to cut the fruits easily too. Throughout we spoke about the fruits we liked and even counted the different fruits we were placing on our skewer too. The children then went on to come and sit down together where we all sat and enjoyed our yummy snack together, which also allowed us to talk about our food and why this is healthy for us too.

The INENT of this activity was to allow the children to develop their life skills, whilst also learning about healthy eating and the importance of this. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this throughout by having a range of different fruits for us to use to make our skewer’s with, as well as starting conversations about healthy eating too. The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their knowledge of healthy eating, allow them to develop their life skills too.

All in all the children had a busy morning making some yummy snacks, and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in different ways such as:

🥝Physical development🥝

🍍Communication and language🍍

🍌Personal, social, emotional development🍌

🍓Understanding the world 🍓

🍇Literacy🍇

🥥Mathematics 🥥

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AT HOME 🏡 you could make your own fruit skewer’s using a range of different fruits too.

REMEMBER to share pictures of all your at home adventures as we would love to see what you have been up to at home as we would love to involve your at home play at nursery to help enhance your play.

Well done everyone! 🥰

Megan, Ella, and Lilli 🤍

28/05/2026

Owls 🦉

Let’s make a school for the Gruffalo.. 🪚 🔨

Following child SS’s recent interest in creating schools in the construction area and lots of talk sound the topic of school within the room today we chose to provide the children with the opportunity to get creative and build a school together for the Gruffalo and his friends.

The children were provided with a range of different building resources to role play along with blocks and crates to use to build with.

The level of teamwork shown by the children in the group was incredible, children shared resources, looked at each other for ideas and supported each others ideas throughout their play.

You could hear the conversation among them explaining to each other what they were doing, how they were using certain things and what they needed too.

This activity supported the children’s development across many different areas, such as their physical development, personal social and emotional development and mathematical / problem solving development too.

Carly and Carmel 🤍

28/05/2026

Ducklings🐥

Frozen Paint❄️🎨🌺

Today in Ducklings the children explored frozen paint mark making! We froze bright coloured paint overnight and encouraged the children to explore the icy textures, colours and movements as the paint melted across the paper. ❄️🎨🌺

Intent❄️
The aim of this activity was to provide children with a rich sensory experience that encourages curiosity, creativity and early mark making skills. The activity also supported fine motor development, hand-eye coordination and language as the ladies used words such as “cold”, “slippery” and “melting”.❄️

Implementation🎨
The ladies prepared paint in advance and froze it overnight using chunky grips for little hands to hold safely. Babies were given large sheets of paper and encouraged to explore freely, making marks, mixing colours and feeling the changing textures as the ice melted. Amanda supported our smallest children by helping them grip the ice and introducing the ice by touching their hands and feet.🎨

Impact🌺
The children were fully engaged and showed great curiosity as they explored the frozen paint. They developed confidence in making marks, strengthened their grasping skills and enjoyed the sensory experience of the cold paint melting in their hands.🌺

❄️Physical Development❄️
🎨Personal, Social and Emotional🎨
🌺Communication and Language🌺
❄️Expressive Arts and Design❄️
🎨Literacy🎨
🌺Understanding the World🌺

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Amanda❄️🎨🌺x

27/05/2026

Penguin’s and Owl’s 🐧🦉

Splish splash… what will we find hiding in the water? 🐠🐙🪸🪼

This morning we were annoying the sunshine in the garden with our friends, the ladies got the water tray out for us to explore and help us cool down in this sunny weather. We had a range of different metal utensils to allow us to transport the water alongside have sea creatures to explore too. The children had a blast splashing around and using the metal utensils to move and transport the water down the pipe and exploring the sea creatures using our imagination too. Throughout we spoke about all the different creatures and about their features, where they live in the sea and so much more.

The INTENT of this activity was to allow the children to cool down in the water whilst having fun and developing an interest too. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this by having lots of different resources in the water for the children to explore too. The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their interest whilst also developing their schematic play too.

All in all we have had a fabulous day splashing around in the water and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in many different ways such as:

🐙Physical development🐙

🪸Communication and language 🪸

🪼Personal social and emotional 🪼

🐠Literacy 🐠

🦀Mathematics 🦀

🌊Understanding the world 🌊

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AT HOME 🏡 you could do your own water play and you could even incorporate some ice whilst it is sunny to help cool you down!

Megan, Ella, Sarah H and Lilli x

27/05/2026

Ducklings🐥

Frozen Animal Rescue Activity🧊🐄🐖

Today in Ducklings we have been exploring the animals with following on from our friends interest, but oh no somethings happened whilst our animals were trying to cool, off in the sun… can you help?🧊🐄🐖

Intent🧊
With the summer heat upon us, we created a fun sensory activity to help keep the babies cool while encouraging curiosity, fine motor skills, and problem-solving through play. The intent of this activity came from Child BT and AM interest in animals recently, whilst also adapting to the environment around and putting the care of our children first.🧊

Implementation🐄
We froze toy animals in blocks of ice and gave the children knives, forks, and spoons to explore different ways of rescuing the animals from the ice. We also frozen some flower petals to look at in the ice. The children loved scraping, tapping, and digging as the ice slowly melted.🐄

Impact🐖
The activity kept the children cool and engaged while supporting hand-eye coordination, concentration, and sensory exploration. There were lots of smiles, excitement, and conversations about the animals as they discovered them hidden inside the ice. We also smelt the flowers, they smelled beautiful. A perfect way to combine learning and fun during the warm weather!🐖

🧊Physical Development🧊
🐄Personal, Social and Emotional🐄
🐖Communication and Language🐖
🧊Expressive Arts and Design🧊
🐄Literacy🐄
🐖Mathmatics🐖
🧊Understanding The World🧊

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Carly x

26/05/2026

Penguin’s 🐧

Penguin’s Daycare 👶🍼

Today in Penguin’s we have had a busy day caring for our baby doll Peach, she came to see us today and we all did a great job looking after her! We made sure to meeet all her different care needs and even spoke about all of our new siblings as quite a few of the Penguin’s have new siblings at home now. This activity has led on from some children getting new siblings and the children’s interest in the baby dolls. Throughout we played with peach, fed her, changed her nappy, gave her cuddles and even read her some story books too! We have even super busy looking after her today!

The INTENT of this activity was to allow the children to develop their interest in the dolly whilst also allowing the children to learn all about babies. The ladies IMPLEMENTED this throughout by having lots of different resources out and about for the children to explore and use to care for the baby doll. The IMPACT of this activity was that the children were able to develop their knowledge on the babies whilst also exploring an interest too.

All in all we have had a super busy day caring for Peach and we can’t wait to tell you all about it later! 🥰

Whilst taking part in this activity the children were able to develop in many different ways such as:

👶Physical development👶

🍼Communication and language 🍼

👶Personal, social and emotional 👶

🍼Literacy 🍼

👶Understanding the world 👶

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AT HOME 🏡 you could care for your own dolly or even help your parents care for baby brother or sister too!

Well done Penguin’s 🐧

Megan, Ella, and Kayla

26/05/2026

🩺 Please note…… Hand, foot and mouth 🩺

We have had several confirmed cases of Hand,foot and mouth within the nursery, if your child has any of the symptoms please keep them off nursery.

🌟 PLEASE NOTE - Our exclusion period for this differs to the NHS, we ask that you keep your child off nursery for 7-10 days, until the blisters are scabbed and healed over. 🌟

Thank you - Team MG 🌟💛

Find out about hand, foot and mouth disease, including what the symptoms are, how to treat it, and when you should get medical advice.

26/05/2026

We are incredibly proud to sponsor an event which celebrates our industry and work we all do in different ways for the children of Cumbria 🌟

✨ HEADLINE SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

We are so excited to officially announce another of our Headline Sponsors for the ✨ Cumbria Baby & Children’s Business Awards 2027 ✨

Please give a huge welcome to 💛 Mother Goose Day Nursery 💛

We are incredibly grateful for their support and are so proud to have such a passionate and inspiring nursery supporting our awards for 2027.

Mother Goose Day Nursery has been owned for the past 6 years and during that time extensive work has been carried out inside the nursery to create an environment rich in imagination and curiosity, with further plans already in place to extend and transform the outdoor area. Through the use of real, authentic and natural resources, they build on children’s curiosity and allow their imaginations to flourish.

They are the first nursery in the area to achieve Curiosity Approach accreditation — an achievement they are incredibly proud of. All play is led by the children’s interests, allowing children to take charge of their own learning while remaining at the heart of everything they do.

Mother Goose Day Nursery cares for children from birth to 5 years old. 🤍

Thank you so much for supporting local families, children and businesses across Cumbria and beyond ✨

26/05/2026

Ducklings🐥

Water Play & Nature Exploration💦🌸🌿

Today in Ducklings we have been exploring water to help us cool down in the high temperatures of summer. We used a mixture different metal crockery and flower petal to allow the children to fill and empty.💦🌸🌿

Intent💦
Today’s activity was designed to encourage sensory exploration, teamwork, problem-solving and imaginative play through water investigation. By introducing metal pots and pans for transporting, filling and emptying water, alongside beautiful flower petals and natural materials, we aimed to create a calming and engaging experience that connected children with nature.💦

Implementation🌸
The children explored the water area using a variety of metal pots, pans and containers to scoop, carry, pour and empty water in different ways. Flower petals and natural resources were added to create texture, colour and curiosity within the activity, encouraging the children to engage their senses and develop creativity through open-ended play. The sounds of the metal containers, movement of the water and delicate flowers created a rich sensory experience full of discovery and excitement.🌸

Impact🌿
The children explored the feel and movement of the water through splashing, pouring and touching the different textures. They were curious and engaged as they watched the water move between the pots and pans and explored the soft flower petals with their hands.🌿

💦Physical Development💦
🌸Personal, Social and Emotional🌸
🌿Communication and Language🌿
💦Mathematics💦
🌸Understanding the World🌸

Well Done Ducklings🐥

Angel and Lilli🤍x