Buttercup Lane Childminders

Archive for the ‘Creative Development’ Category

It is an honour and humbling to be nominated for the 2020 Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2020.

Its even more so special thinking that we have actually made the SHORTLIST.

The awards ceremony, which is now in its 7th year is taking place on February 6th, its an event that celebrates the hard work that many people are doing across the city of Leeds to make our City the best place for children and young people to grow up in.

The category that we have made the shortlist in is Adult making a difference for young people (21+), its a real sense of proudness and accolode to be nominated but to be grouped together with everyone nominated let alone making the short list is a very special feeling indeed.

You can see the Yorkshire Evening Post article here .

We are truely thankful to everyone that nominted us and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We simply love the job we do, we are part of the community and our children our “The Future” everything we do within the community is for the benefit of the children and if some adults can have some fun along the way, we say Why Not !

We will keep you posted.

Thank you, much love Karl and Lia xx

 

September update & Summer Holidays
Wow  – That was the month that was – as they say .
We have had an amazing 6 weeks and we have been and seen lots of new and exciting things as well as some old favourites. All pictures are loaded onto your private viewing areas for you to check over. During the 6 weeks we have been to ( in no particular order ) Formby Beach, Liverpool, Scarborough, Mr Copleys Farm, Temple Newsam, Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Whitley Bay,  Stockeld Park Summer Adventure Land, Roundhay Park, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Brimham Rocks, Knaresborough, Huddersfield, Switherns Farm, Pugneys, Wetherby, Manchester, Yorkshire Railway Museum, The Angel of the North, Newcastle & Middlesborough, Pontefract Park, Rothwell Park, Castleford, MIddlestown, Halifax as well as taking in 3 Leeds Breeze festivals  These are just some of the places we have been to you should see the list of activites that we have done these include Walking, Climbing, Swimming, Diving, Dancing, Crabbing, Fishing, Juggling, Biking, Digging, Painting to name but a few. All in all we have had a terrific time over the last month or so.
Buttercup Babies – New Starters
Well we have been very busy and we have some new starters here at Buttercup Lane Childminders, welcome Morgan and Summer alongside Jake, Alex, Logan. We have also seen some big leaps forward with some of our older children, Some are starting nursery – some are starting junior school and some have taken the giant leap and started High School …. Where does the time go. We wish all the very best of luck to all our Buttercup Babies no matter how big or small.

At Buttercup Lane Childminders – we have another 3 new children. What a week it has been. We cannot wait until we are firing on all cylinders – we have so many fun and exciting things planned , so we welcome <strong>Aiden, Jake and Abi </strong>to our extended family.

Buttercup Lane Childminders are commited to delivering exception child care to each and every child with in our care. We focus on each childs interests and we introduce new activities for all, keeping learning fresh and most importantly fun. We construct the “scaffolding” and we let the children use their own ideas to build their knowledge and experience everything that they need as individuals to further their development.

We had a suprise for the last hour or so today for the children .. Buttercup Lane’s very own Mr Tumble ‘East Ardsley Style’ of course.

Not quite sure who had the most fun the children, the parents or Mr Tumble himself but it rounded off the day nicely.

The fun has not stopped there and since loading the photograph onto the Pacey Website we have been inundated with appearance requests.

<a href=”http://wordpress.buttercuplanechildminders.co.uk/?attachment_id=867″ rel=”attachment wp-att-867″><img src=”http://karlia.ipage.com/buttercuplanechildminders/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/P1040801-225×300.jpg” alt=”Childminding fun at Childminders in East Ardsley Buttercup Lane and Mr Tumble” title=”Mr Tumble at Buttercup Lane Childminders in East Ardsley where the fun never stops” width=”225″ height=”300″ /></a> Entertaining the children as Mr Tumble at Buttercup Lane Childminders

 

 

24th to the 30th June is Child Safety week, Here at Buttercup Lane we have the ideas booklet and we will be making this week a complete fun filled weeek we have lots of activities planned already and we will be having a totally amazing time.

We will be having a SUPER HERO DAY were we all need to be dressed as your favourite action heros – so getting planning now.
For more details check out  <a href=”http://www.childsafetyweek.org.ukhttp://”>Child Safety Week</a>

We have had a fantastic April and here at Buttercup Lane Childminders we welcome “Baby Raine” to our extended child care family.

We are getting quite a lot of interest for September so please if your thinking about using a childminder in East Ardsley make that call sooner rather than later as contracts and numbers are filling up fast. Even if we at Buttercup Lane Childminders cant accommodate you we have links in the community that will be able to help.  So please make that call today.

We are also broadening our pick up and drop off services this september to include BlackGates Primary school… contracts permitting so watch this space for further details.

Spring looks as though it has finally arrived and we have been able to visit lots of places of interest already. <a href=”http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nostell-priory/http://”>Nostell Priory</a>, <a href=”http://www.hemsworthcouncil.co.uk/waterpark.shtmlhttp://”>Hemsworth Water Park</a>, <a href=”http://www.holmfirth.org/http://”>Holmfirth</a>, <a href=”http://www.halifaxtown.co.uk/”>Halifax</a>, <a href=”http://www.observationwheelleeds.co.uk/http://”>Leeds Observation Wheel </a>(OWL) as well as the <a href=”http://www.discoveryorkshirecoast.com/”>East Coast</a> of Yorkshire.

We have also now started to offer 24 hour / 7 days a week childcare. Please enquire early.

Karl and the Easter Bunnies at childminders in East Ardsley “Child care in East Ardsley with Karl the Childminder”

This Mornings Easter Egg Hunt with a few of the children – Another one this afternoon – East Fun at Child Minders in East Ardsley – Buttercup Lane ChildMinders

We have a full house today and we are doing loads of Easter related activities, all Creative Development and expressive arts and design.

As you all have been good boys and girls since Christmas – We are all going on a Easter Egg hunt later this afternoon as the Easter Bunny has all ready been to Buttercup Lane Childminders – he has spoken to Mr Tumbles assistant and told him that there are 99 Easter eggs hidden about, can we follow the fairy rabbit dust to locate all the eggs.
Have fun !!

We all had such a fantastic time at Autumns Buttercup Lane birthday party, please see all the pictures loaded onto your facebook profiles.
Pass the parcel was just the start and we have no idea how many times we have sang Happy Birthday today, there was roll with the coloured giant soft ball, sing-along-abirthday, pin the tail, dance-a-thon, jump for joy, and lots and lots of great party games. ( ask the childrens about the cat playing guitar )

Autumn has gone out this evening for another birthday celebration, she will be a very tired lady indeed tomorrow.

Who is next for a birthday party at Buttercup Lane Childminders, come on Girls and Boys the first one to come to Karl and tell me which one has the next birthday will get a very special present. !!

Today is Autumns Birthday and the party has started