Nursery Category: Activities

  • Navigating Family Dynamics and Celebrating PRIDE with Young Children

    Navigating Family Dynamics and Celebrating PRIDE with Young Children

    Jess Wilkins talks to us about PRIDE “PRIDE is simply saying that there are people that are different from us, this is what makes them different – we can accept them and we can be friends with them, and I think that’s nice.” Find out more with Jess In celebration of Pride Month and Bristol…

  • Little Seasons – Spring Time Fun

    Little Seasons – Spring Time Fun

    April April saw us celebrate Easter in style with a large selection of creative activities and many egg hunts. Our staff got to do what they do best, setting up lots of engaging play trays and providing opportunities for our little ones to explore creatively. We also focused our attention on World Earth Day, thinking…

  • Gardening and Growing in the Allotment

    Gardening and Growing in the Allotment

    Our little friends have been having lots of fun gardening and growing in our Nursery Allotment. Back in May, Blaise Nursery Bristol kindly donated us lots of seedlings and herbs to share with our children. We planted lots of yummy fruit and vegetables that the children have been taking care of, and we were rewarded…

  • Science Week

    Science Week

    “It’s red, it’s hot, it’s lava” –  Small Scientist. Did you know that this week has been British Science Week? The children in our nurseries have been putting on their safety goggles and grabbing their clipboards, ready to investigate the wonders of science through fun experiments, exciting challenges, and lots of hands-on learning activities. Our…

  • Reimagining our Worlds

    Reimagining our Worlds

    We were thrilled to take part in National Storytelling Week (1 February to 9 February) across our Nursery Rooms, enjoying sharing books together and exploring how stories can make us feel and increase our understanding of the world around us. This year’s theme was “Reimaging Your World”, which gave lots of opportunities to immerse ourselves…

  • Lighting up Bemmy at the Winter Lantern Parade

    Lighting up Bemmy at the Winter Lantern Parade

    We are thrilled to be taking part in the 2025 Bedminster Winter Lantern Parade once again, the only local nursery who does so. This year our Raleigh Room children – along with support from their parents, carers, grandparents and our older friends at Monday Club – are making the lantern, inspired by Banksy’s Girl with…

  • Christmas Round Up

    Christmas Round Up

    December was full of magic and sparkle here at BS3 Community Nurseries! Our Nursery children, along with our older friends from Monday Club got stuck into lots of crafts to help us put together a beautiful grotto for the Winter Festival on 30 November. The artwork included memories of Christmases past from Monday Club and…

  • Witch-ing you a Happy Halloween

    Witch-ing you a Happy Halloween

    We love Halloween here at BS3 Community Nurseries and took the opportunity to get up to lots of spooky fun. From renaming our Nursery Rooms (Skel-Leighton Room, anyone?!) to creating bespoke activities for our little friends in the Southville Centre garden and Jasper Room at the Chessel Centre, it was fang-tastic fun. We particularly loved…

  • Harvest Time Thank You

    Harvest Time Thank You

    Harvest is a wonderful time to talk to children about where their food comes from, to experiment in the kitchen and to try new tastes and flavours. For example, the preschoolers in Ruby Room have been making soup, baking bread and trying new vegetables. We also asked our wonderful parents and carers if they could…

  • Planting our Allotment

    Planting our Allotment

    Our plants are here! Following the success of last year’s planting project, we are delighted to be working with Blaise Planting Project at Blaise Nursery, who have once again donated us lots of seeds and saplings to grow fruit and veg with the children. We have chosen lots of yummy bits and pieces and are…