Happy Hares Nursery Blog
January 2026
January has been full of discovery, creativity, and fun for the children! We kicked off the year by exploring three exciting themes: Winter, Healthy Eating, and Under the Sea. The children embraced hands-on learning through a wide range of sensory and active...
December 2025
December was such an exciting month full of festive fun! We bundled up and took lovely walks to admire the beautiful Christmas lights in the town centre. The children crafted cards for their loved ones and created amazing decorations like snow globes, reindeer food,...
November 2025
Throughout November, our Happy Hares have been discovering many new skills. They've been working on their fine motor skills by using tweezers to pick up small items like pom poms and practising cutting with scissors. This month, our planning has mainly been led by the...
June 2025
Hello everyone! Welcome to our June blog! It’s been another exciting month here at nursery, filled with fun topics like 'Kings and Queens', 'In the Jungle', and 'Minibeasts'. Our nursery garden has been buzzing with minibeasts, and we had a fantastic time searching...
May 2025
Wow, what an exciting month May has been! We've been buzzing with fun exploring 'Mini Beasts', grooving in 'Music and Movement', and pretending to be 'Pirates'! The children loved searching the garden for tiny insect friends. They carefully placed them in magnifying...
April 2025
April has been a garden digging, ice-cream making, tower building, book reading, train track creating, tree climbing, frog watching, cress growing whirlwind of a month! We have spent a lot of time in the garden developing our physical skills by running around, riding...
March 2025
This month at Happy Hares we have focused on the topics of ‘Stories & Books’, ‘Space’, and ‘Science’. We celebrated World Book Day with an exciting trip to our local bookshop! And of course, we were also busy making cards for the special people in our lives for...
February 2025
We’ve had a fabulous February here at Happy Hares! This month, we focused on emotions, chatting about how we feel and how others might feel too. We also loved hosting a 'Stay and Play' session, giving our wonderful parents and carers a chance to join in the fun at...
January 2025
Welcome to our first blog of the year! This month, we’ve been exploring "Winter", "Healthy Eating", "Under the Sea", and "Chinese New Year". We had lots of fun making biscuits, decorating bread with colourful food dyes using pipettes – a great way to boost our fine...
November 2024
November at Happy Hares has been full of fun and learning! We've had such a wonderful time exploring topics like 'Bonfire Night', where we talked about safety, and ‘Remembrance Day’, during which the children created their own poppies and learned about its...
October 2024
Hello and welcome to another monthly blog from Happy Hares! This month, we have focused on our emotions, explored the world of mini beasts, and celebrated the festival of Diwali. In our emotions topic, we discussed our own feelings as well as the feelings of others....
September 2024
In September, Happy Hares was super exciting! We had a month full of fun activities and learning. Lots of new children joined our Happy Hares family too. We delved into themes such as "Grandparents", "Paramedics", and "Autumn". The children (and grown-ups!) loved park...
August 2024
This month has been packed with fun and learning. We delved into the world of The Olympics, uncovering how each ring in the logo represents a continent. Our little ones had a blast creating and participating in their very own assault courses and mini-Olympics! On top...