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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

14 hours ago

🌈✨ Our Baby Room Calm Corner has had a magical makeover! ✨🌈

We are so excited to share our beautiful new Calm Corner with our little ones! 💛 We have created a warm, inviting and nurturing space where babies can pause, explore, regulate their emotions and enjoy some peaceful moments throughout their day.

Our refreshed space now includes:

🧸 New soft furnishings – creating a warm, comfortable environment where babies can feel safe and secure.

🌈 Colour Monster theme – helping us introduce and explore different emotions in a simple, age-appropriate and engaging way. The Colour Monster provides a lovely starting point for conversations about how we feel.

😊 Emotive toys – encouraging babies to recognise facial expressions, emotions and social cues while developing early communication and emotional understanding.

👣 Sensory mats – providing opportunities to explore different textures, colours and patterns, supporting sensory development, curiosity and early physical skills.

📚 Interactive story books – encouraging shared reading, listening, attention, communication and a love of books from an early age.

🪑 Cosy reading chairs – creating the perfect little space for quiet cuddles, one-to-one interactions and those special moments of sharing a story together. ❤️

A calm and thoughtfully designed environment can support emotional wellbeing, self-regulation, sensory exploration, communication and early relationships. For our babies, it is not simply a cosy corner—it is a space where they can feel secure, connect with their grown-ups, explore their emotions and learn at their own pace. 🌟

We absolutely love how our new Calm Corner has come together, and we can’t wait to see our little explorers enjoying every part of it! 🥰🌈📚

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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

2 days ago

🌊🐠 Under the Sea Day! 🐙🪼

Our Discoverers had a fin-tastic time diving into an ocean of exciting activities! 💙

From creating colourful fish and jellyfish 🐟🪼, to exploring our Rainbow Fish sensory tray 🌈🐠 and splashing around in the garden with lots of ocean animals, our toddlers have been busy discovering, exploring and having lots of fun!

It’s safe to say they’ve had a whale of a time! 🐳✨

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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

5 days ago

What an AMAZING adventure our Inventors had today! 🌟🚌🚆🐾

We headed off on an exciting day trip to Surrey Docks Farm, travelling by bus, train and bus again! 🚍🚆 Along the way, we stopped by the River Thames to enjoy the beautiful views and capture some lovely memories. 📸🌊

Once at the farm, we enjoyed our lunch before meeting the wonderful animals — goats, ducks, chickens, pigs, sheep and ponies! 🐐🦆🐔🐷🐑🐴

The highlight of the day was definitely feeding the goats and sheep! Our Inventors showed such gentle, caring hands as they fed the animals and watched them happily munch away. 🥰🐑

There was learning around every corner too! The children practised their counting skills by counting the trains we travelled on during our journey. 🚆🔢

What a fantastic day filled with adventure, animals, exploration, learning and LOTS of fun! 💚🌟 Our Inventors have made some truly wonderful memories! 🐾

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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

6 days ago

🎨✨ Messy, colourful fun for our little artists! ✨🎨

Our under-2s had a fantastic time exploring cling film painting! 🖌️🌈 We placed colourful paint underneath cling film and invited the children to use their fingers and paintbrushes to move, swirl, squish and mix the paint around.

This simple activity was a wonderful sensory experience, encouraging little ones to explore colour, texture and movement while developing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. 👆🖌️

There was plenty of curiosity, creativity and joyful discovery as the children watched the colours move and change beneath their fingertips. What a fun way to get creative without the mess! 💕🎨

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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

6 days ago

Play Dough Fun! 🌈✨

Play dough is one of our children’s favourite pastimes—and for good reason! From squishing and rolling to cutting, pinching and creating, play dough provides hours of hands-on fun for children aged 2–4.

But did you know it’s also helping little minds and hands learn? 👐 Play dough supports fine motor skills, strengthens the little muscles needed for writing and self-care, encourages creativity and imagination, and provides wonderful opportunities to develop language, concentration and problem-solving skills.

So while it may look like simple play, there’s lots of learning happening behind those busy little hands! 💛

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Monkey Puzzle Day Nursery New Cross

7 days ago

As summer slowly begins to settle, we’re already reminiscing about our wonderful sunny days! ☀️💛

From sand play and sensory exploration to music, construction, physical movement and so much more, we’ve loved every moment of learning, discovering and growing together.

There’s nothing quite like learning through play while soaking up the sunshine! 🌞🌱✨

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