Although Little Crackers Nursery has remained open throughout the pandemic, the nursery staff have been missing out on meeting up every Wednesday in term-time with all their Stay 'n' Play, toddler group, families.

So, with social distancing restrictions set to continue for the foreseeable future, the toddler group's organisers Gail Buswell and Mary O'Brien at the nursery on St Joseph's Park have decided to offer some exciting virtual sessions to help entertain little ones at home.

After half term, 'Stay 'n' Play At Home' will launch with the release of fortnightly links to short videos that will feature favourite activities such as 'settle down for story-time,' 'join in our sing-a-long' and 'get creative with craft.'

Each video will offer the mums and toddlers the chance to take part in activities that will entertain and support early learning and as a video, families can choose to join in with all or part of each session at a time to suit themselves.

Gail Buswell explains, "the sessions are going to be great fun and although we can't meet up in person, through technology I know we can keep the spirit and fun of our toddler group going."

Mary O'Brien added, "it has been fun putting the videos together and they contain activities we always have on offer at Stay 'n' Play. So, we hope everyone will enjoy them."

The first Stay 'n' Play At Home will be sent out on Wednesday 4 November, so if you would be interested in joining the Stay 'n' Play community and receiving the video link then please contact Jenny Vaughan on [email protected] or on 01926 514410.

Little Crackers hope to resume Stay 'n' Play in its familiar format as soon as it is safe to do so.