Parents wobble into parakeet paradise!
Our Little Forest Folk-ers were so ecstatic to invite our parents into the forest for Stay and Play!
Early in the week we got the parents wobbling on the slack line whilst the little ones giggled and showed them how it is done.
We could also be found sawing our own forest cookies and some were so large they could only be forest cakes! This led to the opportunity to share with the children the classic game of noughts and crosses, marking the cookies X or O and making a grid of pipe cleaners.
We got our body moving in a variety of ways this week, we danced to Mary Poppins, practised yoga poses letting out our inner warriors and followed our breath throughout.
A few more games were brought to the forest, we had our tail game, roaming camp imitating different animals and then collecting as many tails as we could to win! Log race was another new experience where we had two teams who would race to get their log to the finish line.
The mud kitchen was a wet one this week, with tuft trays of swimming letters and squirting pipettes. Our main creations were potions and poisons.
Later in the week the slack line was swapped out for the super swing! The demand was immediate, and our friends were eager to show their parents how high they could fly!
We had an adventure walk where we saw the hatched eggs of the coots in their nest and the new babies floating along the river. Swan eggs were spotted so we await the arrival of some signets, so exciting!
We identified similarities and differences between our friends through our parachute game where the sky became the rainbow as we swapped spaces with a another who had the same colour eyes or same beginning letter of their name.
The camp was decorated with bunting, parachutes, dangling letters, sparkling pipe cleaner spiders and the main attraction was the fierce energy from all our children and educators which really made this week so wonderfully sweet.
Thank you to all involved in making this week such a beautiful one!
Self-love for this week is about accepting and integrating our inner child.
Can you think back to an early memory where you felt sad or alone? Take the opportunity to offer yourself the comfort and support you wish you had at that time. Your adult self can help heal your child self. You are still the you that came into this world wide eyed and curious. Let’s clear the way and get back to that. We can heal the world one heart at a time.
Have a lovely bank holiday weekend!
Little Forest Folk
Chiswick