After a wonderful sunny weekend, our adventurers and educators returned to see our forest in full bloom, almost overnight our canopy came alive with every shade of green. The blue sky barely able to peep through to say ‘hello’.

The bright green colours of our forest meant we were motivated to explore other colours that popped up and appeared in our beautiful site. The children began spotting pops of colour everywhere, in our camp, on adventure walks and in our room. We started to find bright colours in the smallest of places. The bumble bees that fly by, the butterflies that float by, the bluebells and the parakeets that swoop past, all adding to the vibrancy of our environment. Safe to say, we were inspired! With paint in hand, and naturally sourced paintbrushes (otherwise known as sticks) we decided to recreate our beautiful creatures. Spotting, blotting, and folding our pages in half, our adventurers made ink blots of all kinds of animals. With butterflies, turtles, bears and even cloud monsters making an appearance!

Our potions play expanded from a few sickly blues to the entire colour spectrum this week. As our mud-kitchen cabinet filled with all kinds of educator-altering concoctions. The purple one turning all educators into frogs and witches!

Chiswick’s Little Forest Folk-ers caught the den-building bug as they experimented with different structures and shapes for the optimum den. Our adventurers even practiced their knots by tying the den together. The den was tested by our very special ‘earthquake test’.

An adventurer quote of the week for you to kick-start your weekend: “Did you know if you mix all the colours of the rainbow; you get mud colour?”

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Little Forest Folk
Chiswick