Our Week in the Forest...
Winter has finally made its appearance in the forest this week and we enjoyed some wonderfully frosty mornings. The children, all snug in their winter outfits, had so much fun cracking the ice in the puddles. We talked about the crunchy noise that the ice made as we walked over it and we looked closely at the frost that was stuck to everything in the forest. The children marvelled as they touched the frost, watching their body heat melt the ice before their eyes. As we ventured out to the puddles in the afternoon the children noticed that they had all turned back to water.
As our Little Forest Folk-ers explored these wonderfully muddy puddles they decided that they were swamps! They found sticks with pointy ends which became their fishing rods and they spiked little leaves in the murky waters...they said they were trying to catch monsters and dinosaurs. Soon they then became the dinosaurs and monsters stomping around in the puddles making huge splashes!
At base camp this week the children have played lots of energetic games to keep warm. We have a variety of different sorts of chasing games including the ‘Toilet Tag’ where if the children got stuck they became a toilet needing a friend to come and flush their arm! We also had Easter nest tag where the children who got stuck became nests and needed a friend to pluck an egg from them to set them free!
We have also had some wonderful creative activities in the forest this week. The children enjoyed making huge bubbles in the forest, watching them float around, chasing them and trying to make them pop! We also did some lovely big paintings. One child made a fantastic target which they used as a dart board. They made darts from little sticks and practiced their throws. Eventually they managed to make a big hole in the middle of the target!
We have also enjoyed some wonderful balancing this week as the children made their way across some very tricky bridges and tight ropes that were set across shark infested waters! The children used their wonderful confidence and ability to self-asses the risks to negotiate and traverse the tricky obstacles.
Next week we will be venturing out to a new area of the woodland to make our camps. We are very excited to see what wonderful activities and adventures the children get up to when they get there!
Have a lovely weekend and we will see you all next week.
Little Forest Folk
Barnes