This week we have embraced the sun, shade and all the joyous activities in the forest. The new children are all settling in, observing, continuing to explore more areas of the forest and tasting new meals. 

September has arrived, bringing with it the first golden hints of autumn. As the leaves begin to change colour, we’ve said fond farewells to many of our older children, sending them off with hugs and promises to see them again at our Holiday Camps.

At the start of our week we celebrated international dog day with a vet role playing area as the children looked after and cared for all the (toy) dogs we had in the forest.

What a great week we have had! Little Forest Folk Twickenham had their 6th birthday. We made a fabulous birthday banner and we enjoyed a delicious cake to celebrate.

What a great week we have had. The most exciting event for both the children and the educators was the visit from the tree surgeon who came to inspect our beautiful plane tree. The children sat and watched from a safe space while Charlie the tree surgeon used a moving rope system and safety harness to climb up into the tree with his chain saw, which was very exciting

What a fabulous week we have had. With the start of the summer holidays we have had many of our children heading off on family vacations and holiday campers, between the ages of 3-7 years old, joining us for the week. New friends and old acquaintances have returned to see us in our leafy green space. 

We have had a marvellous week of construction and building as the children have created obstacle courses from crates, planks and tyres

Our caterpillars have grown from being tiny, 3mm long, to rather large, chubby, 5cm long caterpillars in a week.

What a fabulous week we have had as we’ve explored the forest. Our theme this week has been farms, where our food comes from and ‘understanding the world around us’.

Our sensory tuff tray included farm animals stuck in mud and we had to clean and wash them, which delighted our younger children. The ice play kept us cool and the straw and grass play allowed us to feel the dry and rustling texture of the hay, all whilst exploring the different smells as we sniffed them.

Our tiny forest chefs spent many an hour in the mud kitchen preparing food for the sea creatures and learning what each animal might like to eat. We were fascinated to learn that Octopi have 9 brains and love to eat crabs, sea snails and small fish.