🎃 It’s been a spook-tacular week for us here at Little Forest Folk Fulham! 👻 We’ve had an extra exciting week with new friends joining us on site for our busy Holiday Camp, as well as ensuring each day has been jam-packed with Halloween and creative fun! As usual, our full timers have been wonderful role models to our new campers, quick to recount the rules and support any peer who needs some guidance on how the forest day works. They’ve loved mixing with a wide variety of ages and taking part in group activities/games. Great job full-timers!
Potion Making Station 🧙♀️
Using some sturdy branches and rope we created a large wooden tripod structure, before using rope to hang a plastic bucket below it. It looked just like a witch’s cauldron. 🪄 We created a ‘potion making station’ where children could experiment with mud, coloured liquids and forest treasures- mixing them all-together until a potion is made- what magic is your potion going to hold? We placed some visual prompts to help our little adventurers come up with some spooky ingredients- like witches’ fingernails, bats blood and wriggly worms, which were all numbered so children could practice their counting/number recognition.
✨🌳 ✨Forest Queen/King Potion✨👑 ✨
(appoints you royalty of the forest!)
Ingredients:
- 2 wriggly worms
- 5 snail shells
- 6 welly boots
- 4 pinecones
Top tips: Most effective accompanied by children’s laughter/witchy cackles
Bullseye 🎯
After using our large masking taped spider web for some fun last week, one educator had a fab idea to turn it into a large ‘dart board’ style activity. We coloured in each section of the board, which paired amazingly with our coloured bean bags. We upped the level of difficulty and created stations with tree stumps of varying distance from the board, so our little adventurers could up the difficulty and try and throw their bags with even more accuracy. We saw so much patience and teamwork within this activity, everyone loved it!
Pumpkin Leaf Collage 🍂
We have been making the most of the orange leaves and using them for our arts and crafts! The shades of orange were perfect for some pumpkin making. We collected leaves of varying shapes and sizes and used them to collage round paper plates. Our Little Forest Folk-ers did a fab job of covering their plates entirely in gorgeous orange leaves and even made some funky eyes out of paper and felt tips. Some children created interesting pumpkin monsters, sticking plenty of eyes all around the pumpkin- so spooky! 🎃
Let’s dress up 👻
Our favourite thing about Halloween is of course the creativity and imagination that comes from dressing up/costumes and we made sure to replicate this fun in the forest. Each day the children have had access to our range of fancy dress and have loved role playing as dinosaurs, stars, crocodiles and much more!
Can you save the insects from the web? 🕸️
Tweezers are a staple in our continuous provision, as they really help strengthen those hand muscles which are vital in early writing. We are always considering new unique ways to incorporate them into our activities- so of course this week it was a spider web Halloween activity! We transformed a Tuff tray into a spider web maze using rope and twine. Under the web of rope, we hid/trapped toy insects. Children had to use their developing pincer grip to pinch hold of the insects, untangling them from the sticky web! 🐜
What an amazing week, we hope everyone had a great weekend!
Little Forest Folk
Fulham