Holiday camp is definitely in full swing! 🌳 Our experienced Little Forest Folk-ers have made some wonderful connections with the holiday campers, ensuring they’ve had plenty of play partners of varying ages!
Over the past few weeks, we have been making the most of our immediate facilities - the pond in Bishops Park, the lovely River Thames and the Walled Garden/open green. Our Little Forest Folk-ers have also loved showing our new holiday campers the nature playground, knowing the routes to our special spots perfectly from memory! 🌲
We created a large-scale maze on camp using pallets and crates, with hidden activity corners and hang-out areas. Children could explore/venture through the cave on secret missions, hiding from scary aliens (their friends). They could also chill out in a shady spot at the book area, reading independently/with others, or with an educator 1-1.
Our little adventurers practiced their fine motor and colour mixing skills using pipets. They started with a selection of primary colour-tinted water containers and they could try and extract some water into their own empty containers. They guessed, observed and described which colours mixed to become another, practicing their hand steadiness along the way! ⭐️
We had a spontaneous ’save the dragonfly’ mission! Our educator Jemima stumbled upon a dragonfly which was looking a bit worse for wear in the Walled Garden. She brought it into camp to show the children the beauty and varying colours of the dragonfly’s body. Due to the size of the dragon fly, a few children were a little frightened, but their bravery built, and they eventually could closely observe the creature. They were all amazed! We realised there was not much we could do to save the lovely insect, but our little ones brainstormed some fantastic ideas, “we should feed him” “we should give him water to drink” “we should find his mummy”. They did a great job of showing their gentle and kind natures.
This same thoughtfulness and love of the world around them was demonstrated through looking after the plants around them. We rescued a partially browned tree from the compost bin and planted it in a big pot of soil. “How can we nurture this plant until it’s green and back to life?” Our little explorers worked together to collect buckets of water to dampen the soil, making sure to remind each other “don’t touch it, it will wobble over!”. Of course, the tree has passed its time, but today it received lots of love and care, and helped our little ones to remember the key elements of how plants stay healthy - light and water. ❤️
Little Forest Folk
Fulham