Happy Hares Nursery Blog
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...
October 2025
October has been a busy month at Happy Hares, with our activities centred around 'Diwali', 'Road Safety', and 'The Zoo'. To celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, we created our own diya lamps, designed vibrant rangoli patterns, and made Barfi, a traditional...
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...
July 2024
Welcome to our latest blog post for July! This month, we've been exploring the exciting themes of 'Superheroes' and 'TraditionalTales'. We connected the Superheroes theme with discussions about emotions and Phase 1phonics and we've discovered that heroes come in all...