Smartees Day Care Nursery, Preston Road, Yeovil, BA20 2DN

13/06/2026

We have placements available! Here at Smartees Day Care Nursery we are dedicated to providing the highest level of childcare for children aged 3 months up to the age of 5. Click to visit our site!

Childcare in a stimulating and secure environment.

05/06/2026

🍽️🌸 Tasty Moments from Our Spring & Summer Menu 🌸🍽️

Our children have been enjoying a variety of delicious, nutritious meals from our new spring and summer menu! From colourful lunches to wholesome snacks, it’s been wonderful to see so many happy faces at mealtimes.

Here are just a few of the tasty dishes our little diners have been enjoying recently! 😋

💚 Fresh, balanced, and prepared with growing minds and bodies in mind.

05/06/2026

🎨🧊 Discovery and Creativity in preschool!🧊🎨

Our little learners enjoyed exploring water, sand and ice play, going on a bug hunt, creating self-portraits, and investigating a bear hunt sensory tray. They had lots of fun learning, exploring, and using their imaginations throughout the day!

✨ Learning, creating, and having fun through play every day. ✨

05/06/2026

🦕💦 🌾🐄Sensory fun all around!

Our babies and toddlers loved exploring water, oats, cereal, dinosaurs, farm animals, sand, chalk, sticky tape, and messy dinosaur gloop. Lots of scooping, sticking, pulling, and discovering while building fine motor skills and having plenty of fun!

02/06/2026

🦖✨ Gloop messy play and dinosaur small world play, inspired by our focus story That's Not My Dinosaur, provided lots of opportunities for learning through play!

🌟 Exploring different textures through sensory play🌟 Developing fine motor skills and hand strength🌟 Encouraging imagination and storytelling🌟 Building language, curiosity, and creativity

The children loved bringing the story to life while exploring, creating, and having lots of messy fun! 🦕💚

Gloop Recipe:🥣 2 cups of cornflour💧 2 cups of water🎨 A splash of food colouring

Mix together and enjoy exploring this fascinating sensory material!

29/05/2026

Nature fun in preschool! 🌿✨

We’ve been making nature hats, bird feeders, yummy biscuits and cooling ice lollies 🍪🍭 while enjoying lots of sticking and crafts to our theme song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ⭐

Lots of smiles, creativity and outdoor adventures! 💚

29/05/2026

🪲🌿 Exciting News in Preschool and Baby room! 🌿🪲

We are so excited to welcome our new baby stick insects to the setting! The children have loved observing them closely, learning about their habitat and how to care for them.

We can’t wait to watch them grow and continue exploring the wonderful world of mini beasts together! 🐞✨

29/05/2026

👶🌟 Baby room fun 🌟👶

Our babies have been busy exploring cereal play with scoops, splashing in water play and discovering bugs and homemade sand through sensory fun 🪲💦

We also enjoyed mark making with brushes and getting creative with playdough, supporting fine motor skills and imagination along the way! ✨

29/05/2026

🐛🌿 Toddler Room Fun 🌿🐛

The toddlers have enjoyed lots of sensory and messy play with jelly, paint, water, gloop and bugs! 🪲💦

We practised fine motor skills using tweezers, explored The Very Hungry Caterpillar through colourful pasta play, enjoyed a trip to the park and went nature foraging for leaves, sticks and other treasures. 🍂☀️

15/05/2026

Our babies and toddlers have had a wonderful week full of fun, play, and exploration 🌟

The children enjoyed water play 💦, explored different animals 🐻🐠, got messy with sensory activities 🎨, and developed their fine motor skills through threading and hands-on play 🧵

Lots of learning, laughter, and happy little smiles all week long 💛