Summertime Fun
Thursday, August 20th, 2015
Summer is festival time in Giraffe! We have as many fun outdoor activities as possible during the summer months to make the most of the fresh air and sunshine! ☀️☀️☀️
Each centre has its own calendar of events from Family BBQs to Sports Days to Beach parties. We encourage the children to take an active part in keeping our gardens beautiful by planting flowers, herbs and even their own fruit and vegetables. They love watching the process from seed to food they can pick and eat! We love outdoor play and painting too. Everyone enjoys being out in the fresh air and we grab the novelty of a sunny day with both hands!
Here are the highlights from summer 2015!
Parent BBQ Fun!
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- Lovely Spread at IFSC BBQ
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- Balloon Fun at IFSC
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- Busy at the BBQ in Elm Park
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- Parent’s BBQ Liffey Valley
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- Fun at Elm Park BBQ
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- BBQ Fun in Blanchardstown
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- Enjoying dessert in Elm Park
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- Enjoying the fun at Blanchardstown BBQ
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- Sarah from Liffey Valley made this amazing beach themed cake for the occasion!
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- Parent’s BBQ Navan
Grow It Yourself
We love to encourage gardening in our centres. In Giraffe Blanchardstown, the children took part in greenhouse planting and harvested a great yield of plants – strawberries, blackcurrants, courgettes, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes and lots of herbs! The children loved being part of the growing process, and we loved the expressions on their faces as they discovered and tried the produce they grew themselves! 🙂
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- Blackcurrants
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- Herbs
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- Mmm… strawberries
In Leopardstown Toddler Safari got in on the gardening action too!
Sports Day
Sports Day is a wonderful opportunity to teach the children from a young age about getting active and staying healthy! Whether it’s the sack race, a ball game or an obstacle course, the children are encouraged to take part, to learn to work as a team and most of all to enjoy themselves!
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- We’re all winners in Elm Park
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- Sack Race NCI
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- Sports Day Northern Cross
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- Siblings at Sports Day Clonsilla
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- Sports Day Park West
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- Egg and Spoon Race Northern Cross
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- Sports Day NCI
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- Obstacle Course Northern Cross
Teddy Bears Picnic
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- Teddy Bears Picnic Griffeen
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- Teddy Bears Picnic Fun in Clonsilla
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- Teddy Bears Picnic
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- Picnic Fun in Griffeen!
Other Activities
Here is a selection of photos of many of the other summer activites we did this summer.
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- Painting in Adamstown
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- Hand printing in Adamstown
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- Outdoor Science in Clonsilla
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- A beautiful fairy in Stepaside
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- Camping in Celbridge
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- Fun with the Outdoor Blackboard
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- Painting with Feet
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- On the Spinning Wheel in Blanchardstown
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- Arrh! Pirates in the garden in Stepaside
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- Discovering mini beasts in Lucan!
Graduations
Summertime is when we bid a fond farewell to our pre-schoolers as they enter Junior Infants! We know they will all do great!
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- Griffeen Preschool Graduation
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- ECCE Graduation Cherrywood
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- Graduation Liffey Valley
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- Blanchardstown Graduation
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- Graduation Day
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