At the beginning of the week in Wimbledon our explorers celebrated Valentine’s day with lots of crafts. We had special pink play dough, colourful sensory rice trays and clay heart making. Both groups have enjoyed creating stamps by folding paper tubes into a heart shape and then dipping this into red paint and using them to decorate cards. Another fun use of card saw many children cut out their own hearts, by folding the card in half and following the pattern an educator had drawn.
This week we have also had the return of lots of old faces who have come back for holiday camp. It has been so exciting seeing friends and siblings back in the forest. There have been many opportunities to share stories and talk about the world outside of the forest. With some bigger children joining us there has also been plenty of long adventure walks out to explore other areas around us. On one of these walks a group of children reached the beech tree forest where they ran down hills, discussed rights and lefts, jumped in a stream, and climbed up high on trees found on the walk.
Some children have also had the chance to do some dinosaur rescuing this week. A bunch of dinosaurs got stuck in blocks of ice and it was up to the Little Forest Folk-ers to get them out. It took a whole team to rescue them, and multiple techniques were used. Some had spades where they dug away at the ice, some used sticks and some even used their feet to try break open the ice and release the dinosaurs!
A fantastic week in the Wimbledon forest🌳 .
Little Forest Folk
Wimbledon