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 book will be called were going on a bear hunt and our word of the week is adventure and our ...
20/04/2026

At Budlake....this week our book will be called were going on a bear hunt and our word of the week is adventure and our sign is bear in the mark making area we will be using sticks, leaves and other natural materials to do some forest painting we will be exploring mark making with different materials and looking at all of the different ways we can make marks. This will help us to work on our fine and gross motor skills. In the creative area we will be looking for and hiding the counting bears in crunchy cereals and oats, we will be using our problem-solving skills to find the bears and using mathematical language of under and over when hiding the bears. In the garden next week, we will be making our own bear hunt trail using chalks and natural objects in the playground we will be talking all about the different seasons there are in the bear hunt story and travelling through each part of the story in our play.

 

This week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as actions songs and Roly poly, this is where we roll our arms fast and slow to the tune Roly poly ever so slowly Roly poly faster why not give this a try over the weekend and see if you can add any other moves in as well. We will also be describing words about sounds and playing noisy neighbour.

 

Last week our book was the hungry caterpillar and we talked all about the life cycle of a caterpillar, we also learnt that some caterpillars don’t turn into butterflies they turn into moths. On Monday we took a lovely walk to the park where we had lots of fun on the slide, swings and balancing equipment before we headed back to nursery for some well-earned yummy lunch. We also had lots of fun taking part in a sensory trail this week where we had to practise moving in different ways such as balancing ,jumping and walking forwards and backwards whilst walking through mud, sand and water.

At Whipton....last week in the Baby Room, we have revisited one of our favourites- Old McDonald had a farm, as the babie...
20/04/2026

At Whipton....last week in the Baby Room, we have revisited one of our favourites- Old McDonald had a farm, as the babies have been showing an interest in the farm animals. We have explored green gloop, using our hands to feel the texture and plopping the animals in and out while we sang the nursery rhyme! Outside, the babies enjoyed developing their early roleplay skills at the Little Ones Farm Shop, opening and shutting the shop till and transporting the play fruits and veg between containers. We have also, as always, gotten very messy and mucky with sand and paint!

At Honiton....last week in the baby room at Honiton we have been talking about our pets we have learnt that there are lo...
20/04/2026

At Honiton....last week in the baby room at Honiton we have been talking about our pets we have learnt that there are lots of different animals that can be pets some of us have dogs and cats and some of us have rabbits or hamsters or even fish. We made a play vets where we looked after our animals who were poorly, some had bandages to make them feel better. We were very gentle with them and gave them lots of cuddles.

On Thursday it was very exciting because a Parrot came to visit us she was called Jemima and she was 41! Jemima’s Mummy cuddled her and we could stroke her. Jemima loved us singing to her and she even joined in with the singing.

This week we are learning all about food we will have a vegetable tray to explore with lots of different textures and smells, We will be mark making using our fruits and vegetables to see what prints they make and we are going to have a teddy bears picnic in the garden.

At Whipton....this week in the Big Room, our book of the week is “Supertato- Bubbly Troubly!” Our number of the week wil...
20/04/2026

At Whipton....this week in the Big Room, our book of the week is “Supertato- Bubbly Troubly!” Our number of the week will be 5 and our Makaton sign will be ‘Bubbles’

 

We are continuing our theme of farms, fruits, and vegetables by taking a closer look at the vegetables we enjoy eating and discovering all the creative ways we can use them in our play. The children will be exploring a variety of vegetables, noticing their shapes, textures, colours, and patterns, and using them to make prints and marks.

Alongside our indoor exploration, our outdoor area will be transformed into a bubble-filled sensory space. The water tray will become bubbles galore, offering opportunities for scooping, whisking, pouring, and watching bubbles form and float. During focus time, we will also be developing our scissor and threading skills, giving children the chance to practise careful hand movements, strengthen finger muscles, and build confidence with tools and materials

 

Last week in the Big Room, we have been reading A Squash and A Squeeze by Julia Donaldson and exploring the concept of farms and produce. In the garden, the children have been working really hard to clean up all the muddy animals, using cloths and sponges to develop their hand-eye coordination and grip strength. In our continuous provision, we have had a tray full of oats, farm animals, grassy textures and houses for the children to explore and expand their imaginations, creating stories about the animals on the farm and seeing how many can fit in the house, just like in the book!

At Honiton....this week at honiton we will be having our Gardening week so we will be learning all about how we take car...
20/04/2026

At Honiton....this week at honiton we will be having our Gardening week so we will be learning all about how we take care of plants and make our gardens grow. We will be reading the story the magical snow garden and on the carpet during letters and sounds we will be doing games like silly soup and I spy our number this week will 5 and the sign is flower.

The activities we will have out are little plant pots we can paint and then each get our own seed to grow our own flowers. We will also have a tuff tray with soil, trowels and watering can to get to explore what we use in our gardens. We will also be painting using leaves looking at the different pattern leaves make.

Last week we have had so much fun learning how to look after pets we have enjoyed sticking different materials onto our animal pictures to give them fur and the best has been having animals come and say hello at nursery we have met parrots, hamsters and dogs brought in by our own staff and their family this week it has been so exciting.

At Bovey....this week we will be reading the book ‘easter egg hunt’ and our number of the week will be 3. Throughout the...
30/03/2026

At Bovey....this week we will be reading the book ‘easter egg hunt’ and our number of the week will be 3.

 

Throughout the week, we have planned lots of easter activities. This includes a big egg hunt each day in the garden! We will be encouraging the children to count the eggs,  describe the colour and the shape of the eggs, as well as comparing sizes which they have found outside.

In the book corner, we will be reading and exploring book about easter. At the arts and crafts table, the children will be offered easter craft daily to create their own art work and masterpieces.

We will have an easter inspired sensory tuff tray that the children will also be able to explore. In our small world area, there will be easter inspired set up with rabbits, lambs etc.

 

Last week we have been reading the book ‘greg the sausage roll’ and our number of the week has been 2. The children have enjoyed roleplaying in the home corner – they have been baking and making food using the kitchens. They have also enjoyed messy play roleplay baking too!

At Honiton....last week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Spring. In the garden we hav...
30/03/2026

At Honiton....last week at Honiton in the baby and toddler room we have been learning about Spring. In the garden we have been planting our own flowers into pots to take them home to our families. We have also been painting flowers and talked about the different colours we were using to make our pretty flowers. We have been reading the story “Hooray for Hoppy” at group times and talked about what we see at Spring, including lambs, flowers and sunshine.

This week we are learning about Easter and our book is “Easter Egg Hunt!” The babies are going to be exploring a sensory tray with shredded paper and eggs hidden inside as well as lots of Easter crafts. The toddlers are going to be creating their own Easter eggs with playdough and looking at different patterns we can make. We are also going to make our own bunny craft using different shapes of card.

At Whipton....this week our book of the week will be We’re Going on an Egg Hunt. Our number of the week will be 3, our w...
30/03/2026

At Whipton....this week our book of the week will be We’re Going on an Egg Hunt. Our number of the week will be 3, our word of the week will be Easter, and our Makaton signs of the week will be Easter and egg.

 

Throughout the week the children will be getting ready to celebrate Easter. We will be talking about Easter traditions, springtime changes, and the different ways families enjoy this special time of year. The children will be encouraged to share what they enjoy doing at Easter and who they like to celebrate with. During focus activities, the children will be creating Easter crafts such as decorating eggs, creating Easter cards, making bunny masks, and designing colourful Easter baskets using paint, collage materials, and natural loose parts.

 

We will also be creating a large Easter display together, where the children can add their own chicks, eggs, and spring flowers while talking about the signs of spring they have noticed.

In the tuff tray, the children will explore an Easter-themed small world setup with eggs, chicks, bunnies, and grassy textures to inspire imaginative play and storytelling.

 

Last week we loved learning all about dinosaurs. The children especially enjoyed exploring the slimy tray filled with dinosaurs, trees, and swampy textures. They had a fantastic time making dino footprints, comparing the different shapes and sizes, and creating their own dinosaur habitats. We also explored playdough fossils, sorted dinosaur bones, and used brushes to uncover hidden “fossils” in sand.

At Honiton....At Honiton big room this week, we will be learning all about easter! Our sign of the week will be Easter a...
30/03/2026

At Honiton....At Honiton big room this week, we will be learning all about easter! Our sign of the week will be Easter and the number of the week will be 2. During our carpet time we will be learning all about why we celebrate easter and talking together about the special ways we all celebrate easter in our families. During letters and sounds we will be using induments and stories to learn about how we can make lots of different sounds and getting more understanding of how we use things such as instruments and our voices to make different sounds.

In our invitation to play we shall have a verity of easter craft bits out so we can make our own unique easter themed art work. We will also have playdoh out with bowls, flour, and tools so we can pretend to make our own hot cross buns. We shall also have practice at our cutting skills using scissors to cut out patterns from paper.

We have had a busy week learning all about spring! Our sign of the week was spring and our number was 1 during carpet time we have loved learning about spring and talking about how the weather changes and the trees get their leaves while flowers start to grow, we even talked about how we all grow through the seasons as well! Our favourite thing to do during letters and sounds this week was closing our eyes and seeing what we could hear around us. We had lots of fun making our colourful leaves out of tissue paper as well as making lots of patterns using cut up fruit.

At Budlake....this week our book is called were going on an egg hunt, our word of the week is Easter and our sign of the...
30/03/2026

At Budlake....this week our book is called were going on an egg hunt, our word of the week is Easter and our sign of the week is Rabbit. In the creative area we will be exploring an “chocolate” easter gloop tray using chocolate scented gloop and plastic eggs with hidden numbers inside. We will be pretending our tray is like a melted easter egg and using our sense of smell and touch to explore the gloop, we will also be having a go at identifying the numbers inside the eggs and having a go at counting that many little eggs. In the mark making area we will be painting pasta and using that to decorate easter egg shapes, we will be using our fine motor skills to paint the pasta and stick it to our egg shape and exploring the concept of patterns. Next week in the garden we will be taking part in Easter egg hunts every day and looking for the plastic eggs hidden around the garden, we will be following the signs around the garden to guide us to the eggs and there may even be a special surprise at the end.



This week for letters and sounds we will be taking part in activities such as mouth movements, this is where we practice moving our mouths whilst making different sounds whilst looking in the mirror to see how our mouths move when we make the sounds.



Last week our story was called 10 little chicks, we practised counting to 10 every day and back from 10 as well, in the small world area we explored a farm yard tray with spring chicks, and other farmyard animals. We loved making homes for the animals on the farm and using them to create stories in our play. In the mark making we made our own spring chicks using feathers, googley eyes and matchsticks to create our own fluffy little spring chicks. We have also loved playing outside in the garden on the bikes this week, and making easter paper chains

Just a reminder.... all Little Ones nurseries will be closed on Good Friday ( 3rd April) and Easter Monday ( 6th April) ...
26/03/2026

Just a reminder.... all Little Ones nurseries will be closed on Good Friday ( 3rd April) and Easter Monday ( 6th April) .

At Budlake....This week our book is called emergency by Margaret Mayo and our word of the week is vehicle and our sign o...
16/03/2026

At Budlake....This week our book is called emergency by Margaret Mayo and our word of the week is vehicle and our sign of the week is car. In the small world area, we will be exploring sand with diggers, lentils and toilet roll tubes to make our own construction site we will be exploring lots of different textures and using descriptive language to describe what we can feel. In the water area we will be playing with boats and other objects that float or sink we will be investigating toys that float and sink and learning about different concepts. In the garden we will be making ramps for the card using the large wooden blocks we will be working together to build the ramps and playing co-operatively we will also be using mathematical language of fast and slow. We will also be playing board games and collaging.

 

This week our book was how much do I love you, we talked all about Mother’s Day and all of the people in our lives that are important to us. We made our Mummies cards using a range of resources and tried really hard to write our own names. We also loved exploring the doll’s house and arranging the furniture in a variety of ways. In the water tray we made love potions using glitter and petals we practised filling and emptying and used mathematical language.

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Exeter

Opening Hours

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

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+441392469909

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