Little Ones Childcare

Little Ones Childcare Little Ones Childcare- providing high quality childcare and early education. Nurseries based in Budlake, Honiton, Whipton and Bovey Tracey

Contacting us....if you would like some more information regarding Little Ones please find our individual nursery details in the 'Our Nurseries' section of this site. Alternatively you can contact our head office for more general advice on 01392 469909 or info@littleoneschildcare.co.uk You can also email Katie Porter direct on katie@littleoneschildcare.co.uk.

At Budlake....This week our story was called little reindeer saves Christmas, we are all very excited about Christmas an...
19/12/2025

At Budlake....This week our story was called little reindeer saves Christmas, we are all very excited about Christmas and have been talking all about what we hope Santa may bring and what we are looking forward to doing with our families. On Wednesday we had a delicious Christmas lunch and all sat together and ate whilst listening to Christmas music and talking with our friends all about Christmas. Throughout the week we have done lots of Christmassy activities such as make paper chain, decorations and cards. We have also loved playing with balloons throwing them to our friends and moving in different ways with them. In the small world area, we have been decorating a tree in the tuff tray we have enjoyed discovering all of the different decorations and tinsel and feeling the textures of the baubles.

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are going to be continuing all our Christmas crafts during the countdown to Christ...
19/12/2025

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are going to be continuing all our Christmas crafts during the countdown to Christmas. We are going to be looking at our favourite Christmas stories during cube time and will count how many days are left until Christmas day!

 

This week we have enjoyed learning about “The Jolly Christmas Postman”, we made lots of festive cards that we posted into our own letterbox. When making the cards we talked about the people who are special to us and who we wanted to give our cards to. We explored 3D shapes and made many houses for the Gingerbread boy from the Jolly Christmas postman story. We used our imagination to make our own Christmas trees outside by using sticks, tinsel and baubles and talked about the different colours, shapes and textures. This week we also had our Christmas lunch; we all enjoyed our delicious roast dinner and puddings. We all sat together and enjoyed listening to Christmas songs while eating our lovely lunch!

At Whipton....What a lovely week we have had full of Christmassy fun and games and finished off with a yummy Christmas D...
19/12/2025

At Whipton....What a lovely week we have had full of Christmassy fun and games and finished off with a yummy Christmas Dinner!

 

Just a quick little message from me (Bridget) to sign off and to say a HUGE thank you!  As you all know today (Friday) is my last day at Little Ones and I just wanted to let you all know what an honour and a pleasure it has been working with you all and with all of your wonderful little people. I have loved every minute!  Thank you to you all, my wonderful staff team and an amazing Head Office team for making this the absolute best place to finish off my early years career! I will be looking for something a little more part time and a little bit , quieter once I’ve had a good rest!  (Not completely retiring! I’m not quite that old! Haha)  

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all of the AMAZING and very generous gifts, cards, flowers and vouchers that I’ve received and thank you for all the visits from old children and the whole families of siblings I’ve seen through the last few years.  It has been very special and very emotional!

I leave you in safe and loving hands.  Goodbye and much love. B xx

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been decorating for Christmas! We helped to decorate our Chr...
15/12/2025

At Honiton....This week in the baby room at Honiton we have been decorating for Christmas! We helped to decorate our Christmas tree by putting baubles and tinsel on the tree. We have also enjoyed playing with our polar express tuff tray and role played being on a train saying “Choo-Choo”! We explored winter animals in snow and liked to explore the texture and sprinkle the snow over the animals. Also, we have had fun making lots of Christmas crafts including snowmen and Christmas trees.

At Whipton....Next week we will be sharing our favourites Christmas stories and generally having a fun filled festive ti...
15/12/2025

At Whipton....Next week we will be sharing our favourites Christmas stories and generally having a fun filled festive time full of music, dancing, painting, sticking and glittering.  We will be playing dressing up in Santa’s Grotto, wrapping presents and making lots of arty crafty bits and pieces. Our number of the week is 10 and our Makaton sign is Father Christmas.

 

This week has been much the same, full of fun and laughter, arts and crafts all topped off with our Christmas party with Mr Phil unicycling and juggling and being really silly!  Santa arrived and brought us all a present and we finished up with party tea.

The best time of year in nursery

At Budlake....This week our story is called little reindeer saves Christmas and our word and sign of the week is reindee...
15/12/2025

At Budlake....This week our story is called little reindeer saves Christmas and our word and sign of the week is reindeer. In the creative area we will be making our lovely Christmas calendars using paint and a range of other resources. We will be talking about how this is for next year and how it will soon be 2026 whilst making these. In the small world area we will be decorating a painted Christmas tree in the tuff tray with tinsel, baubles and other decorations, we will be using our fine and gross motor skills to place the decorations on the tree and talking about our trees at home whilst we create our tree. Outside we will be practising our mark making skills by writing cards to our families, we will be practising writing letters from our names in our cards and recognising our names as well



This week we our book was called dear Santa we have loved doing lots of Christmas crafts using lots of glitter and gems, we also made beautiful decorations using salt dough and painted them when they were dry. On Thursday we had our Christmas party we loved watching Mr Phil the entertainer who made us laugh lots and lots and fascinated us with his magic tricks. We then had a special visit from Father Christmas who we were all very excited to meet and he even left us each a present before eating a yummy party tea.

At Honiton....Next week our book of the week is, ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ by Janet & Allan Ahlberg and our word of ...
15/12/2025

At Honiton....Next week our book of the week is, ‘The Jolly Christmas Postman’ by Janet & Allan Ahlberg and our word of the week will be, ‘Jolly’. Our number of the week is, ‘6’ and our sign of the week will be, ‘Bye-Bye’. Throughout the week we will be exploring what the word Jolly means by discussing Santa and how he is always happy and laughing. Our activities will include developing our fine motor skills by creating a special Christmas post box, developing our mark making and language through writing cards and letters to post and advancing our knowledge about shapes through ginger bread man construction activities.

Our letters and sounds activities will include games that explore different ways of making sounds. i.e. making trumpet sounds, changing our voice tones and volume and using our bodies for percussion. These games will also include some copying and mimicking of real world sounds, our chain game where the children have to copy the sound that the adult has created will help children to develop their listening and replication skills. Our outside activity will include a wide range of sensory items which will encourage discussion about how things feel and sound. An adult will discuss with the children about how different objects that feel different make different types of sounds.

Last week our book of the week was, ‘Stickman’. The children have developed their fine motor skills by creating their very own stickman. They developed gross motor skills by using different tools to try and save stickman from the ice and have enjoyed exploring different textures and smells by being creative with our cinnamon festive play dough. We of course also had our Christmas party which was a great hit with both children and adults as well as a special visit from the ‘Big Man’ himself!

At Budlake....Next week our story is called the Christmas Elf by Marcy Kelman and our word and sign of the week is Chris...
07/12/2025

At Budlake....Next week our story is called the Christmas Elf by Marcy Kelman and our word and sign of the week is Christmas. In the mark making area we will be writing letters to Santa using pencils, paper and envelopes and then mailing them in our special Santa mail box, we will be thinking about what we would like to ask Santa for this year and practising our pencil grip whilst writing our letters. In the creative area we will be exploring a Christmas craft table where we can make our Christmas cards, presents and calendars ready for Christmas there will be lots of glitter, stickers, pom poms and other Christmassy crafting materials to make the most wonderful things. Next week in the garden we will be making Santas sleigh using the large wooden blocks, tinsel and decorations to make a big sleigh we will be working together to build with the bricks.

 

This week our story was there’s an elf in your book, we loved seeing what the cheeky elf has been up to each day and have come in excitedly each day. We have decorated nursery this week, we loved helping to put up lots of different decorations and decorating the tree. We also really enjoyed exploring an elf’s sweet shop with pom poms, tweezers and gems we pretended to make our own Christmas sweets and used fine motor skills to pick them up with the tweezers. Outside we had a Christmas tree decorating tray with lots of tinsel and decorations we loved decorating the trees and adding lots of baubles to the tree whilst counting how many we had.

At Bovey....Next week, we will be reading the book ‘Stickman’ and our number of the week will be 6.We are going to be co...
07/12/2025

At Bovey....Next week, we will be reading the book ‘Stickman’ and our number of the week will be 6.

We are going to be continuing our Christmas crafts through the week. The children have been doing this through this week and have really enjoyed it. They have been able to pick what they would like to decorate their cards with and have had lots of fun with the glitter!

The children will be given the opportunity to explore our Christmas/stickman inspired tuff tray full of baubles, sticks, fake snow, the stickman and lots more!

Outside we are also going to have a similar inspired nature tray.

 

The children will also get the chance to practise their fine motor skills by writing and drawing in Christmas cards – especially during focus time.

 

On Monday, we are having our Christmas Party and have been practising the Christmas songs that we are going to sing.

 

This week, the children have started on their Christmas crafts that they are going to bring home. We have had lots of discussions about how we celebrate Christmas and what presents we would like Santa to bring us! We have enjoyed lots of outdoor play where possible this week!

Wow! The biggest thank you to all our amazing families and team members who donated to our Christmas appeal. This mornin...
04/12/2025

Wow! The biggest thank you to all our amazing families and team members who donated to our Christmas appeal. This morning I had the great honour of donating almost 900 gifts 🎁and over 100 chocolate treats🍫 to the amazing team at Baby Bank Network Exeter . Each and every one of your donations... however big or small... really will make such a difference to local families in need this Christmas. From the bottom of my heart❤️... thank you thank you thank you xx

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Winter. Our book of the week is A Winters sleep. Our number of ...
30/11/2025

At Honiton....Next week at Honiton we are learning about Winter. Our book of the week is A Winters sleep. Our number of the week is 6 and our word and sign of the week is Cold. During our cube times we will be talking about what the weather is like in winter. Is it hot? or is it cold? We will be talking about where all the animals are in winter and most importantly who might be coming down our chimneys on the 25th of December…. On Monday we will be welcoming a special visitor at nursery …… Steve!!!! During the week we will be problem solving by using numericon to make the outline of elves in a tuff tray. We will be using these numericon like puzzles pieces to move and find the correct piece. In the creative area we will be using Duplo to make out own igloos for our winter animals and in the garden, we will be making snowflake soup. We will be using crazy foam, pompoms, spoons and cupcake cases to mix, pour and scoop our soup into bowls and cases.

This week we have really enjoyed learning about road safety. We have been singing a song to help us cross the road we have even recognised the Makaton sign’s for this. Inside we have been making our own traffic lights, we have recognised lots of different colours, red means stop, green means go. Outside we have been washing our own vehicles using soap, sponges and drying cloths. Inside we have also been making lots of car tracks, we have shown good sharing and pushing our cars on the track. On Friday we decorated out Christmas tree!!

At Budlake....Next week our story is Theres an elf in your book by Tom Fletcher, our word and sign of the week is Christ...
30/11/2025

At Budlake....Next week our story is Theres an elf in your book by Tom Fletcher, our word and sign of the week is Christmas. On Monday we may have special visit from our favourite elf friend who may cause some mischief over the next month. In the creative area next week we will be making beautiful Christmas cards using a range of different materials such as sequins, glitter, Christmas stickers and foams and lots of other’s resources. We will be practising writing our name in our cards using pencils whilst working on our pencil grips. In the small world area, we will be exploring an elf’s sweet shop using sweets paper cut outs, little elves, pom poms, sequins and tweezers to practise our fine motor skills. In the garden next week, we will be exploring Christmas tree water with lots of decorations to explore, we will be playing alongside our friends and building friendships with others.

 

Next week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as I spy names this is where we play a game of eye spy but using our names so we say eye spy with my little eye somebodies name that begins with hhh and then we all have to guess what name the adult is thinking of.

 

This week our book of the week was stickman, we have loved beginning to get excited about Christmas, we have loved reading the book each day and get so excited when it gets to the part where Santa arrives. In the small world area, we loved exploring a snowy stickman tray with trains, we enjoyed replaying the story in our play and adding in new bits from our imaginations. We have also loved exploring other winter stories and have spent lots of time talking about snow and keep wondering if it might snow soon at nursery. We have also loved exploring puzzles this week and have worked together with our friends to find where all of the pieces go.

Address

Exeter

Opening Hours

Monday 7:45am - 6pm
Tuesday 7:45am - 6pm
Wednesday 7:45am - 6pm
Thursday 7:45am - 6pm
Friday 7:45am - 6pm

Telephone

+441392469909

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Little Ones Childcare posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Little Ones Childcare:

Shortcuts

Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn
Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share via Email
Share on WhatsApp Share on Instagram Share on Telegram