EVENTS & GALLERY

a smiling family dressed up for Halloween Workshop at Fun Box Day Nursery 2025

🎃 Annual Halloween Workshop 2025 at Fun Box Day Nursery

Despite the rain, our Halloween Workshop 2025 at Fun Box Day Nursery was a joyful afternoon filled with laughter, creativity, and community spirit. Over fifty children and parents joined in pumpkin carving, crafts, face painting, and a spooky treasure hunt — making it a truly memorable Halloween celebration for all! 🎃👻

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three different sized, shaped and coloured pumpkins on a wooden floor

🎃 Autumn Magic and Halloween Fun at Fun Box Nursery

This week at Fun Box Nursery, the spirit of Halloween brought creativity, curiosity, and connection. From pumpkin exploration to playful games, our children enjoyed hands-on activities that supported their learning and development—Halloween fun, the Fun Box way!

Oct 26

a group of young children sorting various household objects into a large drawing of a house

🏡 Our Families, Our Houses, Our Street: building Cultural Capital in early years

This week at Fun Box Day Nursery, our children explored All About Me through families, homes and community — discovering who they are and where they belong. Through creative play, storytelling and shared experiences, they’re building cultural capital, developing curiosity, confidence and a deeper understanding of the world around them. 🌍💛

Oct 19

🌈 Curiosity, Creativity and Collaboration – Hands-on Discovery in Early Years

✨ From ice rescues to leaf graphs and wreath making — this week was all about hands-on discovery in early years at Fun Box Day Nursery Totton! 🍂🔍 #FunBoxDayNursery #HandsOnDiscovery #EarlyYearsSTEM

Oct 12

a little boy with a big smile is holding up a little brown felt tree in his hands, there are other children and a teacher in the background at Fun Box Day Nursery

🍂 All the Leaves Are Falling Down – Autumn Adventures at Fun Box Day Nursery 🍁

All the leaves are falling down - Autumn has truly arrived at Fun Box. Discover our Autumn EYFS activities

Oct 5

little girl wearing a Fun Box Day Nursery uniform is looking up at a grown up also wearing the same uniform, they are holding hands, the little girl is smiling

Fostering Early Years Literacy Through Stories, Singing & Play 📚🎶

This week at Fun Box we were fostering early years literacy through stories with caterpillars, colour monsters, autumn songs, puppets and plenty of joyful reading together!

Sep 28

a little boy is smiling happily into the camera, he is wearing a red tabard

Exploring Emotions in Early Years – Faces, Families and a Surprise Visitor 🙂🐸

🌟 This week at Fun Box we were exploring emotions in early years with spaghetti faces, Mr Potato Head expressions, bubble play, measuring heights — and even a surprise visitor in the garden! 🐸🙂

Sep 21

a little boy wearing a red t-shirt is smiling at his reflection in a hand held mirror, playful environment in the background

Our Second Week at Fun Box – All About Me Nursery Activities 🙂✨

✨ Our second week at Fun Box was filled with All About Me nursery activities — from exploring faces and emotions to caring for babies and celebrating new friendships! 🙂

Sep 14

a baby girls is looking at a Peppa Pig story book touching the fluffy duck illustration on the page

What a Wonderful First Week Back: Settling In, Role Play & Big Builds at Fun Box Nursery

A joyful first week back at Fun Box Nursery! From role play to building fun, see how our children settled in, played, and explored with friends.

Sep 7

a teacher wearing Fun Box Day Nursery uniform is playing with a child who is putting circle disks into a toy dinosaur's mouth, nursery setting, playful environment

Hellos & Goodbyes at Fun Box: Supporting Families Through First Days at Nursery and Bidding Fond Farewells to School Leavers

From first-day nerves to final hugs, see how Fun Box Nursery supports families through new beginnings and school goodbyes with care and joy.

Aug 31

Starting nursery: how we do Settling In at Fun Box Day Nursery 🌈

Last week, our new children began their settling in sessions. Starting nursery is such an exciting milestone in family life, but it’s...

Aug 25

a little girl wearing glasses is painting on a see through surface in a nursery garden

Mark Making in Early Years – Why Painting and Drawing Is More Than Just Mixing Colours 🎨

Discover how mark making in early years helps children learn, grow, and develop key skills at Fun Box Day Nursery – it’s more than just painting!

Aug 17

a little boy is playing with a large toy fire truck in a nursery room

Big Trucks, Fruit Prints & More: This Week’s EYFS Adventures🎨🚛🧘

What a wonderfully busy and engaging week it’s been here at Fun Box Day Nursery in Totton ! As always, our activities have been shaped by...

Aug 2

a group of young children are standing in a line, singing, with party decorations in the background

End of Term Activities for Preschoolers: A Week of Fun, Farewells and Fishing! 🎉

🎉 Farewell, Fun & Fish – What a Week We've Had! 🐟✨ What a whirlwind of a week it’s been as we said a fond farewell to our wonderful...

Jul 26

four smiling little cartoon animals are jumping up happily with a blue background, the writing on the picture says: Summer Holidays! Yippie!!

School’s Out, Summer’s In! ☀️Summer Holidays Activity Ideas from Fun Box

Fun Box Day Nursery have complied a list of exciting summer holidays activity ideas you can do with your children this summer 2025

Jul 19

A young child wearing a green T-shirt is joyously holding up a flower shaped toy, smiling. He is standing next to a water feature, with a red water tray in front of him. There are a couple other children standing in the background in a sandpit. Playful, nursery environment.

Maths Magic, Mini Scientists & Writing Wonders: Learning the Fun Box Way

Explore how children at Fun Box Nursery experience Maths, Literacy, and Understanding of the World through hands-on play, science, and mark-making.

Jul 13

Ice Creams, Beach Tales & Big School Adventures at Fun Box Nursery

Sunshine, school visits, sandy tales, and lots of ice cream fun! 🌞🍦🐸 See how our children at Fun Box Nursery explored summer learning—from froggy facts to big school feelings.

Jul 6