🎨Painting 🎨
Creating large scale works outdoors in forest school, painting helps develop large muscle control (Gross Motor skills). Painting also helps develop children’s hand eye coordination. Children explored big movements in painting with large brushes and mud as the medium to create and in more controlled painting (fine motor skills) with water in forest school sessions this week.
❄️Winter sessions❄️
🪵🌨Winter Sessions🪵🌨
Winter is upon us and we have some fantastic forest school physical team games & invitations to get our whole self moving & to keep warm!
“Room on the Broom” Pumpkin trail
🎃🧹🧙♀️”Room on the Broom” Pumpkin Trail 🎃🧹🧙♀️
It was a joy to see so many parents, grandparents and siblings exploring the areas of forest school that may not have been seen before-We hope you all had a great time and enjoyed the campfire songs & treats.
The Pumpkin trail was enjoyed by everyone big kids too! finding the hidden pumpkins to reveal the characters from the much loved book “Room on the broom”
The potion station was a hive of activity with some truely disgusting potions concocted and slurped on! The apple bobbing was a big splash, We also saw the return of the much loved conker run at the children’s request.
Thankyou all so much for coming!
We hope to invite you all back very soon for some festive fun.
🎃We wish you a spooktacular Halloween weekend🎃
After an epic conker haul we….play Autumnal games!
🌰Autumn Games🌰
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Wild Maths
🍂Wild Maths-Engage all senses; Explore, Imagine, Experiment, Create!🍂
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Pumpkin Patch
🍂🎃Pumpkin Patch🍂🎃
Welcoming October this week we are introducing a range of Pumpkins, Squashes & Gourds to engage curiosity and promote learning about nature and the seasonal delights of Autumn and a lot of physical games to keep us moving now the season is changing.
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🌰🍂Conkers🍂🌰
Autumn is the season for collecting.
It’s hard to resist walking past a horse chestnut /conker tree and not collecting the shiny bounty from on the ground.
There are lots of crafts, games, experiments and fun maths which you can do with conkers, Let us know what you do with yours.
👩🌾🍂How to make a scarecrow; A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE👩🌾🍂
Follow our tips on how we made our not so scary scarecrow with our children in forest school this week and you'll find it's a great little project they will love doing, and you will too. It's so much fun stuffing the arms and legs, and getting creative painting the features on the face. But the best part is probably dressing him (or her – here's your chance to get creative with long eyelashes and beads). Also get those fine motor skills working with fastening buttons, zipping up zippers, tying belts. It's also such a great recycling project for old clothes and accessories.
Scarecrows have a practical purpose as well, helping to keep birds off your leafy greens and other prized vegetables. They're popular with anyone who wants to garden organically, as they scare the birds away from your produce without having to resort to chemicals. They pop up in the most surprising places too, with scarecrow festivals quite the thing now.
It’s quick and easy to do, and a great chance to show off your creativity. Check out ours featured in “Mud & Bloom” our forest school allotment. We would absolutely love to see your creations too. Please share them with us!
