Down By The Bay Childcare Centre
Damelart Way Brentwood Bay, BC, Canada

Water play in the rain. :)

With the rain comes mud. :)

Summer water play fun. :)

Our summer mural :)

The new addition to the back yard. Clean hands inside and outside. :)

There is just so much you can create with Keva blocks. :)

Our beautiful Painted Ladies hatched and were released. It was a very exciting week. The lovely ladies even had a quick pre flight visit with the children. :)

We enjoyed many picnic snacks outside this past week with the beautiful off and on again weather and the children have been playing lots of imaginary play like camping outside.

It has been a bit of a busy strange couple months as everyone knows but we are still here and we are still having fun and learning. We have been spending lots of time outside enjoying this beautiful weather and have been busy watching our caterpillars turn into their chrysalis. We will try to keep more up to date with sharing our many fun activities we are experiencing. :)

So great! Looking for something fun for the kids?

A beautiful sunny day and paper airplanes. What a wonderful combination. No worries in the world for these kids. :)

Snow Day!!! We didn't get much but it still made for great fun!

With endless amounts of rain comes endless amounts of mud and fun!

Happy New Year to all our friends and families. May 2020 bring health, happiness, love and laughter.

Thank you to the Victoria Child Care Resource and Referral for our new Mud Kitchen!!!! They had a contest to win a wonderful handmade mud kitchen by writing a poem and we won!! The children will be very excited Monday morning to see this new kitchen in our backyard. :)

For all our families with children heading off to Kindergarten next year. :)

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We are looking forward to lots of fun filled Christmas activities in the next few weeks. :)

Mark your calendars!!! :)

We had lots of fun making alphabet bread sticks today! The children helped mix, knead and form the letters. They also enjoyed eating them too. :)

We love summer but we also love rain, dirt and Muddy puddles! :)

We had a late delivery to the centre today. :) The children are going to be very excited to see our new puppet theatre Monday morning. :)

Please remember donations are being accepted on an ongoing basis. There is drop box by the front door. Donations are taken regularly to the food bank. Thank you

Save the date! A great event and a great cause to support!

Catching up on a few pics from the other week. :) Picnic snacks and car washes. :)

Down By The Bay Childcare Centre is collecting non perishable food donations and cash to support the Saanich Peninsula Food Bank. There is a drop box outside the front door for food and cash can be given in person. Please message me any questions. Thank you for your support. https://www.peninsulanewsreview.com//peninsula-food-bank-/

Baseball, butterflies and birds. The children had a great time playing with one of our friends baseball sets that he wanted to share. A few of our butterflies hatched out of their chrysalis and we enjoyed watching them fly off. We also got a sneak peak inside our hummingbird nest while Momma was stretching her wings. Amazing!

A couple weeks ago we received our butterfly larvae. We have been watching them eat and grow and eat and grow. They recently all went into their chrysalis'. We are now eagerly awaiting their arrival as butterflies. We were also very excited to discover that we have a Hummingbird nest in our big magnolia tree. :)

Water play afternoon!!!!

Exciting day today at the centre.... We got to watch some repairs to a water pipe in the street and had a lovely picnic snack outside. :)

Catching up from photos from last week. The children enjoying our digger dirt pit and helping to give all our toys a spring clean. :)

Working on a new digger area in the back yard this weekend. I think there will be some happy, busy, dirty children on Monday. :)

Catching up on some pictures. We were very lucky to see a bird start to build a nest in our bird house in the backyard. We have been enjoying our new mirror and feelings corner in the centre and we have been having lots of fun doing Easter art.

Dirt, rain, worms and mud equals lots of fun!!!

Car painting fun. :)

A beautiful morning for an adventure to Damelart Park. So lovely to have this wonderful environment so close to the daycare. :)

Mmmmmm yummy pancakes for snack today!!!! Homemade with the help of some very special chefs. :)

The children have been having lots of fun enjoying the lingering snow. They even created a sliding hill. :) Snow fun!

Today we had lots of fun trying to find our back yard again.. :) Snow fun!