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11/02/2026

🎃 Little hands, big discoveries! 🕷️🔍
scooping, sorting, and exploring with our Halloween sensory bins at Cuddle Cove Dayhome! 🧡

11/02/2026

🎃🕷️ Little hands, BIG discoveries! 🔍🧡

For the past two weeks, our Halloween sensory bins have invited the little explorers at Cuddle Cove Dayhome to scoop, fill, sort, and discover!

With colourful pom-poms, spiders, bats, wooden bowls, and scooping tools, there was so much to explore. Look at those curious faces and busy little hands! 🥰

Through this hands-on play, children have opportunities to:
🖐️ Strengthen fine motor skills and hand–eye coordination
🎨 Explore colours, textures, and sizes
🥣 Practise scooping, transferring, and filling
💬 Build vocabulary and share discoveries with friends

Simple materials, so many possibilities for learning through play! 🧡

11/02/2026

🎃 Little hands, BIG discoveries at Cuddle Cove Dayhome🎨👻

Our Halloween arts and crafts brought so many opportunities to explore, create, and learn together🧡

🎃 Torn-paper pumpkin collages and pumpkin decorating

👻 Colourful sponge-painted ghosts, fluffy cotton ghosts, and paper-strip ghosts

🕷️ Friendly spiders with colourful beaded legs
🦇 Little bats and creative faces

🥄 Real pumpkin exploring—scooping and discovering what’s inside!

Look closely at those busy little hands! Picking up paper, threading beads, brushing glue, and exploring new textures gave our children chances to practise coordination, concentration, and using both hands together.

Each child could choose colours, arrange materials, and add their own ideas. Every creation has its own personality, just like the little artist behind it🥰

Some of my favourite moments are captured here: curious faces, careful fingers, and children creating alongside their friends. So much learning in these everyday moments of play. 💛

Which activity would your little one try first the pumpkin scooping, colourful spiders, or fluffy ghosts? Tell us below👇

10/08/2026

🌻💛 Little Hands Creating Beautiful Sunflowers! 🌻

Our little artists at Cuddle Cove Dayhome enjoyed a lovely sunflower craft filled with creativity, sensory exploration, and hands-on learning! 🥰

First, the children coloured their sunflower petals in their own special ways. Some made little scribbles, while others carefully filled in the petals. Every effort was beautiful! 🎨

Next came the exciting part! 🌻 We used real sunflower seeds to decorate the centre of our flowers, pressing them into soft playdough one by one with tiny fingers.

❤️ More than just a cute craft!

This simple activity supports so many important early learning skills:

🌻 Fine motor development – Picking up tiny seeds and pressing them into playdough strengthens little fingers.

🌻 Hand-eye coordination – Carefully placing seeds helps develop control and coordination.

🌻 Creativity and self-expression – Colouring freely encourages children to explore their own ideas.

🌻 Sensory exploration – Feeling the playdough and sunflower seeds introduces different textures.

🌻 Concentration and patience – Placing seeds one by one encourages focus and persistence.

🌻 Nature discovery – Learning about sunflowers and their seeds builds curiosity about the natural world.

At Cuddle Cove Dayhome, we believe that learning doesn’t have to be complicated. Even the simplest activities can create meaningful learning experiences when little hands are busy exploring! ❤️

🌻 Not every petal needs to be perfectly coloured, and not every seed needs to be perfectly placed. The beauty is in the learning process, not the finished product! 💛

10/08/2026

🍁🍂 Little Hands, Big Imaginations! 🌳🎨

Fall Nature Exploration at Cuddle Cove Dayhome🍁❤️

Who knew a few fallen leaves, sticks, pinecones, and some paint could turn into so much learning and creativity? 🥰

Our little explorers enjoyed two wonderful fall inspired, nature-based activities

🌳 Our Little Autumn Trees
We collected real fall leaves and used sticks to create our own little trees. The children explored, chose their favourite leaves, and hung them on the branches in their own special ways.

🎨 Nature Painting
With colourful paints, brushes, pinecones, sticks, and leaves, our little artists were free to explore colours, textures, and their own creativity.

❤️ The most beautiful part?

Both activities were completely child-led! No step by step instructions, no pressure to make everything look perfect, and no controlling how their creations should turn out.

Just freedom to explore, experiment, make decisions, and create🌈

🌱 So much learning happens through this kind of play:

🍁 Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

🍁 Creativity, imagination, and self-expression

🍁 Problem-solving and independent thinking

🍁 Sensory exploration and curiosity

🍁 Confidence, concentration, and decision making

🍁 Connection with nature and the changing seasons

At Cuddle Cove Dayhome, we believe children learn best when they are given the freedom to explore at their own pace.

It’s not about making a perfect craft. It’s about the learning, discovery, and joy that happen along the way❤️

🍂 Little hands exploring, little minds growing, and beautiful memories being made🍁

10/08/2026

Cold & flu season is here! 🤧 Just a friendly reminder that if your little one is sick, please keep them home until they’re feeling better. Let’s do our part to keep the kiddos (and each other!) healthy. ❤️

10/01/2026

Fall Sensory Play 🍂🍁

Today the children explored a fall-themed sensory table filled with pinecones, acorns, pumpkins, colourful leaves, and different scooping and sorting tools. They enjoyed touching, examining, collecting, transferring, and pretending with the different fall materials.

This activity supported sensory exploration, fine-motor skills, hand-eye coordination, vocabulary, problem-solving, and social skills as they explored and played together.

A simple, hands-on way to discover the colours, textures, and treasures of fall. 🍁❤️

09/23/2026

🌊🐠 Ocean Adventure – Learning Through Sensory Play! 🐙💙
Our little ocean explorers had a wonderful time discovering sea creatures through hands-on sensory play! 🐚🦀
Using blue soapy water, gelatin, crushed cereal sand, seashells, and colourful ocean animals, the children explored different textures while catching sea creatures with scoops and tongs.
✨ Through play, they developed fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, language, creativity, and social skills while learning about the underwater world!
At Cuddle Cove Dayhome, little hands explore, curious minds discover, and learning happens through play! 💙🌊

09/23/2026

🌊🐠 Ocean Adventure Learning Through Sensory Play! 🐙🐢
Our little ocean explorers had so much fun discovering the wonders of the underwater world! 💙
We created our own mini ocean using blue soapy water, blue gelatin, crushed cereal for sand, seashells, and colourful sea creatures.
The children explored different ocean animals, including fish, octopuses, crabs, starfish, jellyfish, and sea turtles, while discovering boats, sand, and seashells. 🐚⛵
Using scoops, tongs, and other tools, they enjoyed catching sea creatures, exploring different textures, and creating their own little ocean adventures!
✨ Learning and development through play:
🐠 Language & Vocabulary: Learning the names of ocean animals and describing what they see and feel.
🦀 Fine Motor Skills: Strengthening little hands and developing hand-eye coordination through scooping, squeezing, and using tools.
🐚 Sensory Exploration: Discovering different textures, colours, and materials through hands-on play.
🐙 Cognitive Development: Encouraging curiosity, problem-solving, and imaginative thinking.
🐢 Social Skills: Practising sharing, taking turns, and exploring together.
At Cuddle Cove Dayhome, we believe children learn best through hands-on experiences, curiosity, and joyful play 💙

09/21/2026

🟢🟠 Learning About Circles Through Play! 🐛🌸
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Our little learners had so much fun exploring one of our shapes of the month – the CIRCLE! ⭕

We created colourful caterpillars by matching and sticking paper circles together. Even our youngest learners enjoyed recognizing the circle shape and placing the colourful pieces in the correct spots🥰

We also took our learning outdoors, collecting beautiful flower petals and fall leaves to create nature art inside big circles. 🌼🍁

🌟 Learning Through Play

These fun activities helped our little ones develop:
⭕ Shape and colour recognition
🖐️ Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
🧠 Concentration and problem-solving
🌿 Creativity, sensory exploration, and appreciation of nature

❤️ It was wonderful to see our little learners exploring, creating, and proudly showing off their beautiful artwork

Little hands, big discoveries, and endless learning through play🌈

Address

Haysboro
Calgary, AB

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	7:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	7:30am - 5:30pm

Telephone

+3685993050

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/cudlecovedh/

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