This week at Nursery, we have continued our exploration of Autumn around us. We have enjoyed having a go at some different fine-motor themed activities linked to pumpkins. We learnt that pumpkins are ready to harvest in the Autumn months.

We used our orange playdough to create our own playdough pumpkins! We experimented with tools, our hands and our fingers to pat, press, squeeze and shape our dough.

We looked closely at some real pumpkins to notice what they are like. We thought about the colour, shape and feel of the pumpkins, talking about this together.

We added paint to our pumpkins to experiment with painting on a 3D surface. We enjoyed using our brushes to explore making different marks with paint and practised layering paint onto the pumpkins. We all really enjoyed pumpkin painting and showed wonderful concentration as we used our paintbrushes carefully. We have developed our fine-motor skills this week through different activities whilst having lots of fun together!