Little Duckies Home Childcare
149 Vantage Loop L3X0L2 Newmarket, ON, Canada

Lots of winter fun to be had making a snowman and shovelling the sidewalk! Great for motor development, social and cognitive skills.

Creating these glitter snowman bottles were a great motor development craft. It also helped with eye and hand coordination as they carefully placed the glitter into the bottles.

Story Time with Santa was a lot fun but not as fun and heart warming as donating a gift and giving money to the Salvation Army. This little act of kindness teaches the children about love, compassion and helping those in need. As they say one good act sparks another...

Bringing in some Christmas spirit with snowflakes, a Christmas tree and pretty glitter Christmas ornaments! All this Christmas fun enhanced the children's motor, cognitive and language skills. It also helped with social skills as they worked together taking turns in separating the branches, sticking snowflakes to the glass and hanging their ornaments.

This cute little fall/winter craft was a perfect solution to filling up an afternoon indoors from the -20 temperature we had this week. These little winter fox crafts had the children exercising fine motor development as we glued little eyes and noses on to the face, cognition as we put our fox together made with fallen leaves and language skills as we talked about what we were doing.

Today's field trip took us to Home Depot where we learned about building supplies, measuring our materials and cutting the wood to make the exact size of our measurements. We augmented language, cognitive and mathematical skills.

Our Halloween party was super fun, super cute and super yummy!! We exercised our motor, sensory and language skills with fun activities like ghost toss, a spider web walk, creepy eye balls and gooey squishy pumpkin guts sensory bin and bags!

In our preparation for Halloween we have been learning about pumpkins, spiders, ghosts and getting dressed up as ladybugs and sloths (And meows) ;) ! Today we carved out our very first pumpkin! As these little duckies got their hands gooey they watched the pumpkin transform into a Jack O' Lantern!

Halloween Crafts have started! Each week we will be doing a craft that will be part of our decorations for our Toddler Halloween Party on the 30th. It's going to be Spooktacular! Today we started our creepy crawling spiders. Motor skills, creative expression and language skills were in full effect for this craft.

Today my little duckies and I had our own little thanksgiving lunch. Corn on the cob with sauteed zucchini and Portobello, homemade cranberry sauce and pumpkin puree. I just love seeing those motor skills hard at work! #letscook30

Happy Thanksgiving to all with love from Little Duckies Home Childcare. Xxxx

Banana, Strawberry, Blueberry Oat Flourless Muffins. Very soft and yummy! Easy to make and bake before the littles wake from their nap! #letscook30 2 cup of oats 3 ripe bananas... Handful of blueberries Bunch of Chopped strawberries 1/4 maple syrup 1/4 milk 2 eggs 1 tsp of baking soda Mix it together, line your muffin pan with coconut oil and bake on 350 for 17 minutes.

Today's visit to Homestead Orchards in Georgina had us picking Empire and Jonagold apples right off the trees! Next on the menu: baked apples!!! Yum yum! #letscook30 @yorkregiongovt

Jamaican style mackerel with green banana, yam, and plantain. #letscook30

Yummy yummy lasagna! Packed full of Portobello mushrooms, zucchinni, sweet peppers and spinach. #letscook30 @yorkregiongovt

This week's culture infusion had us enjoying Butter Chickpea with Na'an bread and for story time we read an Indian lulla-by-a. Learning about different cultures encourages love, acceptance, equality and diversity. It's also enhances language, cognition and sensory development. #letscook30 @yorkregiongovt

Measuring ingredients and mixing them together helped build skills in language, math, motor and cognition. As much as we enjoyed mixing these ingredients we enjoyed eating our freshly baked pumpkin pie even more! #letscook30

Very carefully these little duckies scooped up the beads and glitter and funneled them into the water bottle. This sensory activity augments fine/gross motor and eye and hand coordination skills as well as discovering the scientific nature off the beads expanding in the water.

At the farmers market we explored various different fall vegetables! These little duckies each picked a pumpkin and a basket of peaches. Stay tuned for the making of our homemade pumpkin pie. Coming this week!

Today's lunch - Jamaican Salt Fish and Ackee. Yum Yum! Every bit was enjoyed by both duckies. For those that don't know ackee is a Jamaican fruit grown from a tree. It's cooked together in a skillet with salted cod, onion, sweet peppers and tomatoes and some seasoning. Paired with whole wheat dumplings, it makes for a nice light dish for breakfast or lunch!

Through creative exploration using household items and some paint we brought to bloom, with love, these one of a kind tulips! In the process the children learnt about primary colors and with some experimentation they witnessed the effect of colors blending together. Fine motor and eye and hand coordination where enhanced during the process of attaching the 'tulip' to the stem.