• What colours are used to make us feel safe?
• Think about how we have different coloured: eyes/hair/skin
• Read themed stories: The Mixed Up Chameleon, Elmer, Brown Bear, brown bear
• Think about the coloured food we eat
• Mixing colours: light box, painting
• Draw pictures of rainbows
• Paint self portraits
• Dance with coloured scarves
• Sort small cars in coloured car park spaces
• Colour scavenger hunt
• Threading coloured beads
• Play the Traffic light game
• Make colourful fruit kebabs
• Grate chalks in mud kitchen

Welcome to all our wonderful families, we hope you had a fantastic summer. We can’t wait to hear all about it!

• Share experiences of summer days
• Talk about the weather, how have we protected ourselves?
• Learn about/ remember our rules and boundaries
• Read stories: at the airport, camping story etc
• Draw a picture of “my summer” – adult to scribe
• Write letters in sprinkles using lolly sticks/fingers
• Make sea creatures from playdoh
• Use tweezers to put the right amount of ice cream onto the numbered cones
• Make waves in the parachute
• Marshmallow & fruit kebab skewers
• Build sandcastles
• Make den outside into a caravan
• Fishing with nets

• Share experiences of school visits, talk about teachers, uniform, classroom etc
• School themed role play area
• Make pictures of nursery uniform
• Make self portraits for diplay
• Design a heart: what we love at nursery
• Take part in activities that involve turn taking and sharing resources
• School small world set up
• Read books about School, e.g “Colour Monster”
• Make faces in the sand using pebbles/shells
• Make going to school book
• Hopscotch in the playground
• Play team sports: football/basketball
• Sink and float household objects
• Sew letters of our names
• Move using whole bodies, e.g Traffic Light game
• Hide objects in the sand to count
• Make marks with chalk on playground

• Make up a pirate name using alliteration
• Share new stories about pirates e.g The Pirates Next Door
• Make maps
• Build a balance beam for pirates
• Build pirate ships using duplo/lego
• Small world pirate island
• Private treasures posting challenge
• Thread beads to make necklaces
• Revisit floating & sinking
• Find the magnetic objects in the bottle
• Put the elastic bands on hooks
• Learn pirate songs
• Make pirate flags
• Pirate cafe role play – make food to serve
• Dig for objects
• Practice for Sports Day
• Begin Graduation practice
• Collect treasure with tweezers
• Explore bubble dough, glittery dough, moon sand

• Share our experiences of the farm
• Read themed stories about animals
• Sing animal themed songs e.g “Old Macdonald”
• Match animals with their babies
• Revisit our knowledge of what comes from an egg
• Animal sound lotto
• 3 little pigs home area
• Make farm pictures using tap a shapes
• Learn about the produce we get from farm animals
• Make homes for animals using blocks/sticks/shapes
• Use farm animals to make sequences
• Make hoof prints in soil using potato prints
• Follow positional language to find animals in the garden
• Make farm animals for display

• Set up a party with banners, balloons etc
• Create a London Bus role play
• Make tickets for the bus and take on roles
• Read themed stories e.g Queen’s Knickers and non fiction about London
• Talk about the Queen, her family and life
• Make a Jubilee recipe including weighing/measuring
• Look at coins and sort
• Look at patterns and symmetry in crowns/flags
• Mould playdoh into cakes
• Make crowns and party hats
• Finger print flags
• Make party invitations
• Make pictures of people important to us
• Taste different foods, smell different objects
• Make cakes in the sand and mud kitchen
• Use chalks to write recipes outdoors

• Read Superworm, Snail & the Whale, Twist and Hop
• Dip spaghetti into paint and use to make worms
• Superhero tuff spot
• Notice differences between bugs
• Make worms move using magnets
• Make playdoh worms using hands
• Sort the worms by size
• Talk about being kind and gentle to mini beasts
• Make masks for superheroes
• Fill the pollen tray with nectar (pipette & water)
• Make worms using cheerios and pipe cleaners
• Move like different bugs, e.g buzz like a bee
• Dancing worms using bicarb and vinegar
• Silly soup with rhyming words
• Make a wormery