The start of this weekend marked the beginning of Diwali. We celebrated this spiritual victory of light over dark with forms of rebirth by collecting our sunset-coloured leaves to make gorgeous Rangoli patterns. Rangoli is a traditional art form, originating from India, where spices, flower petals and rocks are placed together to form shapes and patterns. They symbolise happiness, positivity and liveliness. Our adventurers followed lines to stick their leaves in a circular pattern, creating beautiful natural creations to take home.
Take a look at your face, what can you see? What shape is your nose? What colour are your eyes? Our Little Forest Folk-ers used handheld mirrors to note their attributes, they created their portraits using pens, framed them with squiggly scissors and attached string to make necklaces. Together we compared our likenesses and noticed how each one of us is unique!
Halloween pumpkins allowed us to check how we are feeling. Angry, happy, sad and silly pumpkins provided great expressions for our adventurers to replicate and it was also a fun opportunity to get a little silly with the emotions we showed!
Another fun activity this week used shape cut-outs and words, which were handmade by an educator, to name, label and mix and match to make different images. Using circles, hearts, triangles and squares our children made pumpkins, bats, witches and all things spooky!!
Joke of the week: How do witches stay in shape?
They do hexercises!
Little Forest Folk
Chiswick