Do-Re-Mi Childminding

20/04/2025

Do-Re-Mi Childminding is ready to open again on Tuesday after the Easter break. Our garden has had a total transformation. Our art room has been painted and we are ready for another exciting term. In due course, we will replace the grass with brand new Astro turf. We are looking for a carpenter who can help to replace the doors and windows on the art room. Please let us know if you know someone who can help. 🔨

14/04/2025

What a transformation! We have been incredibly busy here at DoReMi Childminding over the Easter holidays. We have had our pond removed completely and a purposefully built new area of our garden for playing. It’s still a working progress so bear with us as the renovations continue but the journey is taking shape! 🏡🪴

13/04/2025

Our new art room is still a particular favourite in the setting. It’s allowed children to have such great independence when using paints, especially on a large scale. 🎨🖌️ Here are some of our recent favourites…

12/04/2025

In our new setting, we have loved the plant pot that the previous owner left behind. We have used a range of spoons to dig out the soil and even found a potato growing in it. 🥔 Now we need to add some children’s gardening tools to the outdoor environment to enrich our provision. 👨‍🌾

11/04/2025

🧗 Climbing and Balancing ⚖️ Using wooden beams in the garden, is a regular favourite of ours. Children have really developed their gross motor skills this term and enjoy beams of all different sizes to walk along. Great early gymnastic skills. 🤸‍♂️

10/04/2025

☕️🫖 Tea Party ☕️🫖 We set up a tea party for the children with real tea bags and luke warm water. We watched the water change colour. We improved our fine motor skills by tearing the tea bags; our gross motor skills by mixing and scooping with big spoons. We learnt about space and measure through our conversation too. ☕️🫖

09/04/2025

With the beautiful weather we have had, the children have loved being able to play with water in the garden. They used natural items to make their own rivers and then we add blue food colouring to the water. The oral story telling was fantastic. 💦

08/04/2025

The garden stones in our new setting have been a particular favourite with the children. They have enjoyed making cakes with them, building with them and even making their own potions. Watching the children develop their transporting schemas repeatedly through this has activity has been fantastic. 🏡

07/04/2025

We finished off our term with a visit from Krazy Kangas to run a music workshop with the children. This time our workshop had an Easter theme. We love having Rio in our setting. The children enjoyed playing with musical instruments and bubbles and playing a game of sleeping bunnies. What a great way to end term!

06/04/2025

🎂 Happy Birthday Joe! 🎂 We make cakes in our setting even for the staff on their birthdays. The children loved being a part of Joe’s celebrations, especially when they got to eat the cakes and play party games.

08/03/2025

All set up for Monday morning…new items have arrived for the setting! Books and small world items. Can’t wait for the children to have the chance to internet. 🚜✈️

06/03/2025

📚World Book Day 2025 📚 As the nation celebrates world book day today, we took some time to reflect on how we promote reading in our setting on a daily basis. Our children love sharing books. A particular favourite today was making pasta from playdough with our new pasta maker machine. The children used recipes from ‘The Gruffalos Recipe Book’ to inspire them. 🍝

02/03/2025

Our new setting has been open for a full week now and it is great to see it evolve to give the children the best circumstances for play. 🛝

02/03/2025

This weekend we have been busying addressing the ‘slushy’ garden. As a temporary measure, we have installed some Astro turf to address the hazard. We hope this allows the children to enjoy the outdoors more safely. If you know of anyone who is has more Astro turf available, please ask them to get in touch with us. 🏡

27/02/2025

26/02/2025

In our new setting, our famous art room has become a favourite with the children. They have loved the chance to explore paint and textures this week. It is to great to see their creativity come alive. 🎨

23/02/2025

This half term at Do-Re-Mi Childminding we have been exceptionally busy. As many of you know, we have moved house and so we have been busy preparing our new setting. We can’t wait to welcome children in on Monday to enjoy our new location, including our extra special art room! 🎨🖌️