Camellia Cottage Childcare

03/06/2026

One of the Children found a tiny nectarine that had fallen from our tree. This sparked an interest into exploring its texture, cutting it up , and smelling it ! It won’t be long before we have a huge bounty of them again ☺️

We then went to check on our sunflower seedlings and rainbow carrots 🌻 🥕

It’s been so lovely to watch the children grow year after year alongside our veg garden. It doesn’t seem so long ago that I had to guard tomato plants with my life as they were too tempting not to pick and throw around 🙈🤣

Now I have a group of mature gardeners 🤓🤓🤓🤓that tend to our plants with so much care, noticing every little change in our garden . They even remind me to water our seedlings💚💚💚💚

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

I made a nice little set up on the table this morning…..the children had a much better idea!!
This is why strict planning doesn’t work in early years. The magic happens when they’re engaged and following their own agenda 😎

27/05/2026

☀️Summer days 🤩

26/05/2026

What a gorgeous day in the woods today visiting our special friends and exploring.

21/05/2026

🎶Who waaaants an icecream …..come and get an icecream🎶

🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦

We even got a bit of sneaky letter and number recognition in as we wrote out the menu together ❤️

20/05/2026

Although we’re mostly outdoors, the children love our Children’s Centre visits.

It’s lovely to see how over time, their confidence has grown - I think one of their favourite parts is talking to the lovely lady on reception on arrival, showing her their clothes/ sharing birthday news etc. We’ve built a little community of children, friends/ childminders and it’s so lovely to have that bit of variety to each week to build on everyone’s personal social and emotional skills ❤️

19/05/2026

If there’s no muddy bums, they haven’t had enough fun 🙊❤️

13/05/2026

We will miss you little W 💙

Our little friend who is the perfect balance of wild, sensitive, kind and a lot of fun! Wishing you so much love on your new adventures ###

13/05/2026

This was a lovely addition to our farm visit- British Sign Language posters dotted around.
We’ve had a practise this week, but this will be an ongoing learning experience now that we have farm memberships 🐮🐑🐓🐐