

Healthy Choices at Fun Box Day Nursery
This week, children explored healthy choices at nursery through sensory vegetable play, food sorting, cooking vegetable soup, storytelling, and collaborative learning. From babies tasting vegetables to preschoolers categorising foods and developing fine motor skills, learning was practical, meaningful, and fun.
2 days ago


Healthy Habits and Early Maths Learning at Nursery 🥕🫛🍓
This week, our children explored healthy habits and early maths learning through play. From brushing dinosaur teeth and practising handwashing, to weighing fruit, ordering vegetables by size, and role-playing healthy food shopping with ICT, learning was practical, meaningful, and fun for all ages.
Jan 25


👩🚒🔧 People Who Help Us — A Week of Real-World Learning at Fun Box Day Nursery
This week, the children explored the theme People Who Help Us, discovering real-life roles through hands-on play. They trained like firefighters, cooked like a chef, styled hair, fixed robots using tools, and explored hats and helmets. Through these activities, all EYFS areas came to life naturally as the children learned, imagined and worked together.
Nov 23, 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! 🎃👻
Nov 2, 2025


🏡 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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


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, 2025


🌿 A Week of Growing, Learning and Independence at Fun Box
This week at Fun Box has been full of exploration, discovery and little moments that help to bring the Characteristics of Effective...
Jun 29, 2025


Nibbles, not your average Easter Bunny
Right, so Nibbles wasn’t your typical Easter Bunny. He wasn’t majestic, he wasn’t elegant, and frankly, he wasn’t very good at being a...
Apr 6, 2025





