We've been celebrating Halloween in the Burrow and here's a little of what we have been up to.The week before last in our tough tray, we have been exploring lots of different natural objects, but we also had a little taste of Halloween.

So, anyone who knows me, knows that I am known as the “messy one” in The Burrow. Often on show arounds I hear Jess tell the parents “This is Nic, she’s the messy one in the Burrow, the one who gets all the paint out, all the glitter out, all the shaving foam and so on”.

Over the last couple of weeks we have said goodbye to some Burrowers, who have either moved on to the Den or moved on to their own exciting adventure. However, we have welcomed our new children from the Hive as well as brand new children and our older Burrow children have given them a helping hand in settling in!

PARENTS…Can you guess what we are up too…? So…There’s been LOTS of slime. LOTS of glitter.

So I bet a lot of our families wonder what some of circle time activities are that we get up to in the Burrow, even more so when their child goes home and mentions maybe “scrunchie” or “songbox” or “joggle bopper” or our new favourite the…“parachute”.

Shaving foam; an innocuous member of most household bathroom cabinets. But it’s well known in Early Years that shaving foam provides hours of learning opportunities if given with the right prompts and modelled by a seasoned practitioner.

Recently we’ve had some new farm friends join us at Free Rangers. They are noisy, they are big and sometimes they even manage to escape their house! Can you guess what they are? Geese! Our lovely new girls are called Samantha and Delilah.

So, anyone that comes into the Burrow knows that we like a bit of creativity…from paint, to flour, to glitter, to MUD to well…anything!! We can literally make anything creative, mainly because the children take the lead and they have a knack of seeing the world differently. This week in the Burrow we have been cotton wool painting, but not just any cotton wool painting.

We’ve been enjoying the variety of weathers; rain, sunshine, snow and hail! As we all know we take any weather in our stride and make sure it doesn’t stop us, so on go our waterproofs, wellies and even at times, our sun hats! We’ve been exploring our surroundings, spending as much time as possible in the garden and in the paddock.

Soraya’s recent blog post had filled you all in about our recent “story making” story, We’re going on a penguin hunt and over the past few weeks we’ve been getting very creative in the Burrow. We decided to use our feet to create our own penguins. We moved all the tables and furniture aside in the burrow, took off our shoes and socks and got painty!

As the cold weather is starting to arrive and the leaves are beginning to fall, the Burrow have gone into Autumn mode. Over the weekend Soraya took a long walk around Victoria Park in Bath and Tiff ventured around Wells enjoying some family time, they both came across lots of autumn time bits and bobs which they collected for the Burrow children, so on Monday morning we had two bags full of leaves, conkers, pine cones, hazelnuts, acorns, brazil nuts, almond nuts and walnuts.

We have had lots of new faces come and join us in the Burrow the past few weeks and as everyone has started to settle in the older Burrow children and staff have been showing our new children what we have on offer and here's a few things we have been up too.

We are still in full swing of our pirate bonanza in the Burrow and over the past couple of weeks we have gone 2D! We used some cardboard boxes which we started to decorate using paint brushes and sponges as the main walls of our ship, however before long the shoes and socks were off and our feet were dunked in the paint trays

For a few weeks in the Burrow our children have been experiencing looking at stories whilst listening to the sing-a-long CD. Soraya had brought in a range of stories written by Debbie Harter at Barefoot Books and sung by Fred Penner