Following the announcement of our Queen’s award in April, we are delighted to share an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in May.
We’ve been bursting with excitement and now that it’s the Queen’s birthday and the official announcement day, we are absolutely delighted to finally share with you the news that Little Forest Folk has been given the royal seal of approval.
Following our being selected by Tatler as being one of the finest nurseries in the nation last month, we are now delighted to share with you an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in our Wimbledon setting a few weeks ago.
Well, this weekend was the long awaited Nursery World Awards! It was a fabulous event and we were delighted to be recognised in such a large industry such as the early years to be one of the industry leaders.
We learnt what we can do to help the bees! Earlier this year, we already planted some wildflower seeds to help create habitats for them and this week, we focused on water and a bee hotel for mining bees. We gathered stones on our adventures to and from the car park, and placed them in a shallow dish. Here we then poured water into the dish so the bees could drink and wash themselves.
We have had some great tool time too. This week we’ve been learning how to use a hammer to knock in nails. We had small blocks of wood and as we knocked each nail in we had to watch out for our thumbs and fingers. Once we had knocked in 3, 4, 5 nails we then chose a beautiful length of wool to attach to one nail and then we enjoyed wrapping the wool around all of our nails creating nail art to take home.
The children took part in several beautiful Easter crafts. They carefully cut and painted ducks, mixing yellow, white and brown paints to design their own unique chicks. Once the paint had dried, they finished their creations by adding colourful feathers, which the children thoroughly enjoyed. These activities gave them the chance to practise their cutting, painting and fine motor skills while expressing their creativity.
This week of holiday camp has been so fun! Everyone was buzzing with excitement after their Easter Holiday weekend and we kicked the week off with adventure walks up to Cannon Hill Common where we played parachute games, smelled tulips and visited 5 new little ducklings in the pond! After all that adventure everyone cooled down with some waterplay under the hose and ran and splashed under misty rainbows together.
Such a beautiful round up to an amazing Holiday Camp. We’ve been blessed with glorious sunny weather, the Walled Garden beginning to bloom and blossom and as usual we’ve had a great bunch of campers who have brought new energy to our Fulham camp 🏕️ Here’s some of the fun we have been up to this week:balancing between logs and crossing different sizes of planks. While the little ones used the tunnel as their secret and cosy rabbit hole home, the oldest enjoyed playing Jenga for many turns!🥚🌼🐰
The bluebells are starting to show, the trees are filled with pink and white blossoms, there are woodpeckers everywhere and it really feels like Spring is here! The children have had lots of opportunities to develop their fine and gross motor skills with activities out in the forest and back at the cottage too.
Easter fun has been the theme this week! We started the week by saying goodbye to one of our families, who are relocating. They kindly gifted us some bird feeders, so we decided to go on an adventure walk on the child’s last day to find places to hang these special gifts up! Children enjoyed finding high-up places for them and we have said we will go back and check how the feeders are doing when we next go out on a walk!
On Tuesday, Shahana got the children to line up, as it was time for our egg and spoon race!
We made our own paper flowers, carefully folded their petals and then placed them in water to watch them slowly open up like real blossoms 🌸 It was such a magical moment! During this, we also learned about photosynthesis and even picked up a new song: “If you want to know how a plant grows, it takes water, air and sunlight!” 🎶
We had a Rabbit tunnel consisting of two climbing frames made out of pallets and a hula-hoop with two long bunny ears. This was part of our challenging Easter obstacle course. Our little bunnies had lots of fun climbing, going down the rabbit hole through the hula-hoop and the pile of tires, balancing between logs and crossing different sizes of planks. While the little ones used the tunnel as their secret and cosy rabbit hole home, the oldest enjoyed playing Jenga for many turns!🥚🌼🐰
This week, we placed a strong focus on tool work, building on the children’s skills and confidence. The children had the opportunity to use bow saws and palm drills, creating their very own wooden spinners - this was a big highlight and they were incredibly proud of their creations! It was also a fantastic continuation of last week’s work, where we practiced splitting wood using mallets.
This week the weather has thrown all the seasons at us! Cold, wet, hail and sun! Not to worry, this weather has been great for us to carry on with our growing projects!
On one of our outings we walked to the village to purchase some potatoes to plant. On the way there we took some time to enjoy a lovely snack on the bench whilst watching all the wildlife on the pond. We then took it in turns to feed the ducks, swans and geese whilst discussing the differences between them all.
Many of our trees in the forest are in bloom at the moment, our plum, apple and cherry trees are so pretty covered in white and pale pink blossoms. As the wind and the parakeets knock the blossoms from the branches, our intrepid artists are gathering the flowers and sticking them down on paper to create pictures and cards for friends and family members.
