UNDER 3's

0-3 YEARS

PLAYROOMS

At Hoodles Childcare, we offer two dedicated playrooms for children under 3: Buds and Blossom.

These spaces are designed to create a nurturing, engaging, and safe environment for your little one. Our caring staff tailor activities to suit each child’s age and developmental needs, fostering growth and joy. To ensure a seamless transition between home and nursery, we strive to maintain your child’s familiar routines whenever possible.

In our playrooms, children are free to explore and engage in activities within a secure and relaxed setting, helping them build confidence, independence, and a love for learning.

REALISING THE AMBITION

Guided by Realising the Ambition, Scotland’s national practice framework, our team creates meaningful interactions, enriching experiences, and supportive environments to promote the development of babies and young children in early learning and childcare settings, extending into early primary years.

Our dedicated staff provide essential experiences for children under 3, including comforting cuddles, personalised care, sensory play, outdoor adventures, and music exploration.

Children are encouraged to choose their activities, access resources, and express themselves freely. Through interactive play, engaging conversations, and opportunities to socialise, share, and form friendships, your child will thrive.

Our nurturing staff also support key milestones, such as toilet training and developing independence during mealtimes, all within a warm and loving environment.

Your child will be able to participate in many learning experiences which also encourage curiosity and discovery, including:

  • Extensive selection of books, stories, poems and rhymes to encourage communication and language.
  • Treasure Baskets (baskets containing sensory items with different textures, sounds and smells).
  • Heuristic Play (play using everyday objects such as wooden spoons and pans which encourages curiosity and exploration and offers opportunities to categorise and compare)
  • Multi-cultural musical instruments, singing, action songs, musical games, music and movement.
  • Daily opportunities for outdoor play for health, fitness and physical development.
  • Sand and water play as a sensory experience for the youngest babies and to introduce early science concepts such as pouring, measuring, wet, dry, full, empty for older babies and toddlers
  • Extensive opportunities for encouraging expressive development through painting, gluing and drawing using a variety of art materials.
  • Play dough and clay are sensory experiences which encourage small motor skills in hands and fingers.
  • Role play through dressing up, using puppets and ‘let’s pretend’ in the home corner. Children use role play to make sense of the world around them through acting out familiar experiences.
  • Cooking and baking help develop science knowledge such as measuring and weighing. Healthy eating habits are also encouraged.
  • Planting and growing activities both in the garden and indoors to encourage the children to care for living things and gain knowledge of nature and the world around them.