Our Morden forest has had so many cool activities this week! We have welcomed the sunshine in this first week of May to see all the cool things we can learn in our space.

We’re all very keen to see our vegetable garden slowly popping to life with the changing season! The children have been working with rosemary this week and learning about the process of ‘propagating’; taking a small cutting and turning it into lots of new plants by allowing the roots to grow in our fresh water. As the roots have grown long enough now, the children are preparing the growing beds for planting! Also in preparation, the children took the time to paint their own rosemary sprigs, which can be used as signs for identifying our growing plants!

Another cool adult-led activity we had this week was looking at the importance of the worms in our forest! All of our Little Forest Folk-ers have a great interest in the worms we find around site and to make sure we are taking care of them properly, Charlotte helped us to make a ‘facts board’ about the worms, which was made out of pink tissue paper, and the children’s own fabulous writing skills! Thank you to our little explorers for putting so much effort into important parts of our forest and looking out for the creatures we share the space with!

Finally, one of the favourite play spaces we had set up this week was the doctor’s office! The children used their stethoscope and note pads to make sure all of their fellow ‘patients’ in the forest were feeling much better. Much to our dismay, the dinosaurs in the forest then began feeling unwell! So the doctors quickly began a vet’s surgery to look after creatures great and small!

What a great week it’s been, we hope you all have a lovely long and restful weekend!

Little Forest Folk
Morden