Our Week in the Forest
What jam-tastic fun we have had this Shrove Tuesday 🥞 🍓 We celebrated one of our favourite holidays.. Pancake Day! 🍯 We went all out and made our own pancakes and jam from scratch, we also read the (very relevant) story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’. Our Little Forest Folk-ers helped mix flour, eggs and milk into a mixing bowl, using a whisk to get out all the lumps and bumps. The children watched as Maria fried the pancakes on our very own hob. We then cut up slices of strawberry and gathered some raspberries and black berries. We popped these into a bowl, dolloped in a generous amount of honey and then got on with some serious squishing and mashing. After lots of teamwork we had a lovely sticky jam. We packaged up our creations and then took them outside to eat, picnic style! 🫐
The children’s creativity this week reminded us of the power within open-ended play. After being inspired by their talk of castles, knights and princesses, we gave them materials to make the concept come to life. Using foam bricks and old boxes, our campers constructed their own castle, with a moat, drawbridge and different levels. They used tape to connect the walls, having to adapt their plans when one wall wouldn’t hold. We saw a lot of determination, thought and enthusiasm 🏰
🚨 🏥 On Wednesday, camp transformed into an Accident and Emergency, even kitted out with a stretcher made from branches and twine. Children could take each-others temperatures, bandage up poorly limbs and tend to ill patients (poorly stuffed animals).
We celebrated the Lunar New Year too 🧧 We used play and literature to explore the concepts of the Year of the Horse. 🐴 We had created a few horse head models for around camp, as starting prompts for conversation. The children were inspired by these and asked educators to attach a big branch to the horse-head, so they could ride around camp!
Planets, solar systems and stars 🌟 🪐 have been a great source of inspiration for us this week. Many campers shared their knowledge of the planets; their size and their order, also sharing their favourite planets based on their physical characteristics. This has influenced lots of our crafts this week, you can be sure to have found cardboard cut outs of Saturn, decorated with chalks, stickers and pens! 🌞
Little Forest Folk
Fulham