22 Street Lane Nursery - November 2017 Newsletter

November Newsletter

Diwali Celebrations;

The children had a wonderful time celebrating ‘Diwali’ here at 22 Street Lane.

The children particularly enjoyed our Diwali messy play; we explored with rainbow coloured rice, powdered paints, and bright play dough, we then added bright powered paints to our water trays and encouraged the children to explore and mix the different colours. We made Rangoli patterns using coloured rice and chalks, as well as drawing around our hands. We listened to some Hindu style music, and a song called ‘happy Diwali’ which we had a little dance to. The children also made some beautiful salt dough Diya lamps; these lamps are traditionally made in India to celebrate Diwali, the festival of light. We painted our lamps, added a tea light, then switched the lights off and watched the sensory colour changing lamps flash and sparkle! At snack time we had some ‘Mango Lassi’ that the children had made earlier that day; we cut mango into pieces and then blended it with yogurt - it was a big hit with the children! To finish the day the children enjoyed homemade lentil and daal curry with pittas and Indian snacks of Onion Bhajis made b

We captured some amazing photos during our Diwali celebrations at 22 Street Lane Nursery, which we would like to share…