Liverpool City Region and Beyond Stronger Practice Hub
Sharing how resource bags gifted by Liverpool City Region and Beyond Stronger Practice Hub have made an impact to a childminder network.
Childminder Name: Kendal Childminding Network
How did you use the resource bag?
Thank you so much for the resource box that Tracie (Strategic Childminder Support Lead) brought to our Network Drop in at Beck Community Centre in Kendal. We used the ‘Owl Babie’s’ story sack within the drop in while Tracie was with us. The children absolutely loved the story and used the fabulous puppets. We extended the activity by playing ‘sleeping owls’ then flying around and swooping down to picking up toys to put them away for tidy up time.
Please share further information on how the resource bag supported your setting and how the resource bag may inspire or support other childminders?
Every week each childminder will take home a different resource bag to share with their minded children and then swap the following week. They will also take it in turns to use a bag within the drop in, for the activity and swap ideas to extend activities within the bags.
What impact did this resource bag have on the learning of the children in your setting?
The children and childminders absolutely enjoyed using the story sack. Everyone joined in, got excited, had fun and laughed all the way through the story. They learnt all about why babies get upset when their mummy leaves them. It promoted discussion about emotions including how they felt that morning being dropped off at their childminders. The children talked about cuddling their childminders for reassurance and how they felt safe. Some of the children cuddled each other, others cuddled the owls.
The children pretended to be sleeping baby owls, when woken they flew around swooping and diving down, before going back to sleep to do the actions again.
After the session the children all helped to put the contents back into the bag ready for next time.
