The Mail has featured the achievements and activities of staff and tiny tots at scores of local nurseries.
Here are a selection from our archives. Many of the children featured will now be much older and will be on the verge of adulthood while some may well have children of their own.
1. Hats off
Children and staff from Seaton Nursery held an Easter parade, but does anyone remember the year? Photo: LH
2. Green fingers
Lisa Race from Kiddikins Nursery and children (left to right) Lexi Sweeney, Aimee Moor, Ava Lodge, Ollie Hazell and Cerys Southcott looking over their garden in 2013. Photo: FRANK REID
3. Here I come!
Nursery Here I Come in Elcho Street, Hartlepool, ran special sessions to prepare children for nursery in 2013. Looking at the smiles, they worked. Photo: Mail
4. Baking fun
Footprints Nursery on Tees Street in Hartlepool held a cake baking session in 2013 to help raise awareness of Ehlers-Dahnlos syndrome. The nursery's business manager Suzi Yeniceri is pictured receiving a cake from Lyla O'Connor, aged six, while her pals Isaac Craggs, Finley Mulgrew, Lily Riley, Lucie Wilkinson and Jemima Craggs look on. Photo: TY