Bathing Babies - March 2014

Every term we invite a range of different people to the setting.

These visits spark interests that we use to plan exciting learning and play opportunities.  

Today J's Mum bought in his baby sister to visit us.  The children became really quiet and absorbed in watching the baby being bathed, listening to J's Mum explain the different processes.   Baby J enjoyed being bathed...she made LOTS of splashes.

The children were amazed that their feet and hands were bigger than the babies.

We had a long conversation about size.

 "Sometimes you can be bigger...especially when the other person is smaller.  But, sometimes you can be small too...especially when compared to someone bigger than you...like Dawn!"

Role Play: Caring for our babies

After watching a real baby being bathed, we washed our babies - dolls (lots of times) and then had fun getting them redressed into new clothes.  "Will it fit?"

We discussed our family members "Do you have brothers and sisters?"  Are they older or younger?" etc.

Many thanks to Jack's mum for spending a half hour in our setting bathing her new baby.

Can you help?

If YOU have an interest, hobby or job, that you would like to share with our children, please speak to our managers....we would be delighted to incorporate your idea into our plans.  You would be amazed at some of the learning that the children have accessed after a short visit.