With autumn blazing all around us, our beautiful, huge, plane tree is dressed gloriously in golden yellow, auburn and strawberry brown. We have delighted in catching leaves, exploring our natural world, finding insects and seeds and leaf patterns. As the seed pods fall from our various trees we have enjoyed collecting and inspecting them, learning their names and squirrelling them away in our pockets and back packs as treasures. The children have been showing each other such kindness as they move around the forest and mastering the obstacle course, with older children helping our younger children and holiday campers reading to our regular children.

With Halloween and Diwali to celebrate this week we have been very busy with pumpkin carving, floating ghosts made from tissues and cotton wool, spooky puppet shows and we have had great fun creating colourful, rangoli, sand art, as well as welcoming our siblings and friends in for holiday camps. Tool time this week has included sawing, both of wooden logs creating cookies as well as sawing random bits of wood up to create our own sets of building blocks. The Little Forest Folk-ers have both focused and listened attentively as they have mastered the sawing skills we have offered. Having sawn their cookies, they then had a wonderful time decorating them with our bright and colourful chalk pens.

On Oct 31st we had some wonderful costumes in the forest! Skeletons, vampires, bats, witches, wizards, and superheroes filled the forest with screeches, rattling bones, flapping wings and magic spells. The forest filled with our seasonal singing; the “hairy scary castle” and our “bonfire night” song featured, along with many of our other favourite tunes.

Little Forest Folk
Twickenham