We have been celebrating International Women's Day this week with lots of exciting activities.
On Monday we celebrated the English palaeontologist Mary Anning, who became well known for her fossil discoveries and collections in the Georgian era. We made fossils using salt dough and dinosaurs to make small and big footprints, and everyone had a wonderful time using their fine motor skills to poke and prod the dough to make their unique creations.
On Tuesday we celebrated the American mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was the first black woman to work for NASA, and contributed the maths that created the paths for spacecraft to orbit Earth and land on the Moon. Inspired by everything space, our Little Forest Folk-ers made a beautiful galaxy picture by grating chalk and pastels into water and then dipping paper in the swirls.
On Wednesday we celebrated the incredible Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and the children had the chance to be super creative and draw self-portraits on paper plates and then hang them up around the forest for everyone to see.
On Thursday we took to the skies, as we learnt more about Amelia Mary Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. We had an amazing day making a big aeroplane for the forest and lots of mini aeroplanes for our adventurers to take home with them.
What a wonderful week it has been in the forest, celebrating some incredible and inspiring women from history and learning and having lots of forest fun along the way!
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham