Holiday Camps
Little Forest Folk holiday camps run at each of our nurseries during the school holidays.
Our holiday camps are a wonderful opportunity for children aged three to seven to be immersed in nature in our magical forest settings. Our forest adventurers spend their days exploring, building dens, using tools, hunting for mini-beasts and creating works of forest art. We run, we climb, we balance and we laugh, thriving in spending time outdoors. Little Forest Folk's approach is child-led and play-based & we encourage children's imaginations to run wild!
Holiday camp days run from 9.30am to 3.30pm with drop off and pick up at our forest setting. Nutritious and homemade lunch and snacks are included. We can take children not enrolled at our nurseries aged three to seven and we usually recommend a minimum booking of two days per week.
Please find our Holiday Camp Terms and Conditions here.
Our next holiday camp is running over May half term - Tuesday 28th May to Friday 31st May 2024.
Tickets will be released to the public on Monday 22nd April. Please click below to join the holiday camp waiting list, to be notified when booking is open!
WHEN OUR HOLIDAY CAMPS RUN
Our holiday camps run during:
Spring Break - Tuesday 2nd April to Friday 12th April 2024
May half term - Tuesday 28th May to Friday 31st May 2024
Summer holidays - Monday 29th July to Friday 23rd August 2024
October half term - Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November 2024
February half term - Monday 17th February to Friday 21st February 2025
You can see our full term dates here
Booking opens to the public five weeks before camp starts. An email will be sent out to families on our holiday camp mailing list, to notify them that booking has opened - you will then be able to book onto any available sessions via our online booking system. To sign up to our holiday camp mailing list, please input your details below.
Please note that booking for camp closes 2 weeks before the first day of camp.
A TYPICAL DAY AT HOLIDAY CAMP
Our day starts at 9:30 when we all arrive at our forest setting. Once all our friends are here we sing our morning song and eat our morning snack, usually at 10:00am. We then start our free play until lunch at midday; we ensure we all wash our hands before we enjoy our delicious child friendly meal, then we start to get creative for more fun and adventures in the afternoon. Before we know it, it’s 3pm and time for our afternoon snack before we say goodbye to our friends at 3:30!
Like other Early Year settings in the UK, we follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) learning framework but we strongly believe in child-led and play-based learning too.
Whilst your child is with us during holiday camps you can expect them to enjoy a wide range of activities, that will help build gross motor skills, practise their language, numeracy, and critical thinking, plus some wonderful sensory experiences and more such as;
building dens
creating magic potions in the mud kitchen
constructing and climbing obstacle courses
going on exciting adventure walks
making bracelets and necklaces from elder branches
being shown how to safely set up pretend fires ready for the real deal with our wild cooking sessions
mapping out bug hunts
blowing bubbles
designing tie dye creations
sawing wood & using tools
making and flying kites
organising treasure hunts
painting on giant canvases
walking along the river and pond dipping
and so much more!
The wonderful thing about our forest locations is that they are all unique and therefore each allows us a different range of activities! We have wonderful staff who are trained to show our little ones how to safely engage in all forest activities.
CAMP ESSENTIALS
We will be outdoors all day, every day, come rain or shine! To ensure campers are comfortable and prepared, please bring the following items to camp every day, labelled with your child's name and leave valuables at home:
Waterproof jacket and trousers - these are not provided for holiday campers and must be high quality waterproofs. If you would like to purchase a set of our Roarsome Summer/Winter waterproofs, please see below.
Wellies or sturdy footwear.
Complete change of clothes in a small backpack.
Reusable water bottle, full of water, labelled with your child’s name.
On warmer days pack a sunhat and apply a layer of suncream before morning drop off.
Medication must be handed over to staff and will be kept in a locked box onsite (where possible, please administer all medication prior to drop off).
For more details on what to wear for camp see our recommended kit list here.
If you would like to purchase a set of Roarsome Waterproofs from us, to be collected on the first day of camp, please email info@littleforestfolk.com to arrange. The price is £120, for a set of Summer/Winter waterproofs which include a removable fleece lining.
We aim to bring you home happy, tired children at the end of each day who have had a blast in the forest. In order to ensure we keep your children happy I am afraid that we will not be able to take into the forest any children not dressed appropriately or without waterproof clothing during rainy days - the last thing we want is soggy, cold children! There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing... so dress them well and they will have a blast.
Locations and Pricing
Little Forest Folk Chiswick - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £107.39 per day
Little Forest Folk Fulham - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £107.39 per day
Little Forest Folk Morden - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £84.10 per day
Little Forest Folk Putney Heath - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £104.79 per day
Little Forest Folk Twickenham - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £98.33 per day
Little Forest Folk Wimbledon Village - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £104.79 per day
Little Forest Folk Wimbledon - 9.30am to 3.30pm - £98.33 per day
BOOKINGS AND CANCELLATIONS
All camp bookings made will be non-refundable and non-transferable.
Need to ask more questions?
Please check out our Holiday Camp FAQ page here!
