Budding Explorers

Wonderful time exploring our autumn treasure bags. Through play and art our preschoolers learn about our native trees and the changing of the seasons.

We at Budding Explorers preschool have been fostering a love of nature for many years at our outdoor preschool with well establish wild meadows to support our beehive. Our play area is immersed in nature so our pollinator ambassadors (aka the children) can observe up close all the pollinating insects and flowers providing a ‘bee-positive action' for the Pollinator Programme 2025.
Along with pollinators we have tadpoles in our pond and plenty earth loving insects. Our art projects reflect the interest of the children such as our homemade binoculars and vibrant coloured tissue flowers. We deeply believe in nurturing a knowledge of nature in preschoolers as they are the protectors of our future environment. in Schools

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Our baby caterpillars arrived today and the kids were fascinated by how small they were. We will be observing their growth over next few weeks and hopefully will have 5 butterflies to set free in our garden.
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Great excitement as we start into the Incredible Edibles Kerry Gardening & Nutrition Project . We planted our strawberry 🍓 plants in containers and our potatoes in our new raised bed.

☘🍀 Happy St Patrick's Day.
Great to be celebrating St Patrick's Day with the kids in preschool. We did some spin art shamrocks and of course a Budding Explorers tradition of making rainbow toast. 🍀🍀

Fab morning with the kids discovering how ice melts and collecting all the Christmassy treasures. Great work out for the little fingers

🎄Invitation to decorate🎄
All ready for the kids to get decorating in the morning...

We enjoyed a lovely week expressing our creativity through this fabulous junk art wall collage. The kids were so proud to show their parents at collection time today 🥰. I wonder what our next project will be.....

In Slug club today we tended to the sprouting sweet pea seeds we sowed last week and the group were very excited to find our first 2 daffodils in the garden. Lovely morning outdoors.

Great fun today making chocolate and apple play dough!

We introduced our first butterfly to the garden today.