Our Week in the Forest...
Welcoming change
The forest is forever changing under the blanket of a new season and the children are delighted by the new colours they see every day. Shades of yellow, red and green were copied by the children in their paintings and while some recreated the beauty on paper, others were engaged in sensory painting with their hands.
Alongside nature, the children have shaped the forest in their own way. From creating plank roads to balance and transport their creations from one point to another, to asking educators for new routes to climb. Traders were seen on new paths selling chocolate mud cakes or rainbow ice creams and spiders and snakes were waiting peacefully for their friends in new high spots.
We were lucky enough to find a treasure in our woods, this week. Not as precious as gold, but as some children described it, ‘’magnificent’’. Our Little Forest Folk-ers used their forest skills to dig and extract the pieces of ceramic. Shovels and tweezers were handled independently with the supervision of a forest educator and children showed awareness of how important it is to be careful of yourself, the others around you and the forest. Worms were taken care of and relocated in the process.
Children, birds and forest educators came together to form an orchestra and we sang to keep us warm, happy and connected with each other. The elephant song and the penguin dance were part of our repertoire and sometimes just jazzy sounds filled our forest this week.
Children had the opportunity to practice some of the recipes created in the mud kitchen and cooked us bread, pumpkin cake and on top of all of this, children took pride in their cooking and it was wonderful to move beyond pretend eating and actually taste what they had prepared together with our forest educators. It was delicious!
Enjoy your weekend and see you next week in our colourful and full of life forest!
Little Forest Folk
Twickenham