VANDALS smashed the front door window of Muddy Boots nursery before dancing in celebration and fleeing.

Staff were horrified to find the damage to the nursery, in Turlin Moor, and after viewing CCTV saw the vandals smash the glass with a chair.

Melanie Bowen, one of the directors at the nursery, said: “We left on the Monday evening and returned on Tuesday when we discovered it. We have CCTV and it happened on Monday night at 8.45pm and it was two youths.

“When they smashed it, they did a victory dance and left. It was purely just to break something.”

Melanie said they tried to keep the children away from the vandalism, but they were devastated.

She continued: “They were asking why their nursery was broken and ‘will Santa bring us a new front door for Christmas?’

“We have some children who suffer from anxiety. There is routine in place and children benefit from that, so even coming in a different door can affect them badly.

“The children who did see the door were quite upset.”

The vandals tried to break the windows on the wall but after failing, decided to repeatedly throw a chair at the door.

The cost for the repair will come from the council as they own the building.

However, it will take three weeks to order the glass meaning the nursery just have a wooden cover over the door.

“It really has affected the children and if I was looking around a nursery and saw a smashed door, I would not take my children there,” Melanie added.

To turn this negative into a positive, the children have painted the wooden cover on the door with a message saying “Smile, Your on CCTV.”

A spokesperson for Dorset Police said they received a report at 8.07am on Tuesday, December 17. of criminal damage to the nursery in Poole.

They added: “It is reported that some time overnight a chair was thrown at the side of the building and a window was smashed.

“Enquiries are ongoing into the incident.

“No arrests have been made.”