What a fabulous week we have had. With the start of the summer holidays we have had many of our children heading off on family vacations and holiday campers, between the ages of 3-7 years old, joining us for the week. New friends and old acquaintances have returned to see us in our leafy green space.

With our Linden tree sprouting suckers from the base of the trunk, we have taught the children how to safely use loppers to trim back the suckers. With serious faces and an air of responsibility about their persona, they each listened to instruction and conducted their pruning with careful exactitude. Armed with nearly 100 slim bendy branches, we headed back into the forest to start building a wicker round house that the children insist on calling an igloo. We have planted uprights in the soil in a circular “igloo” shape and our little explorers have enjoyed weaving the suckers in and out of the uprights to create the walls of the house. It has been an ongoing project all week and will have to continue into next week as well!

As our theme this week, we have been learning about occupations and rather than concentrating on the usual police, fire and ambulance professions; we have instead been dentists, creating false teeth out of white play dough and dental hygienists who have passed tools to the dentists as they have crafted their teeth. We have been vets looking after animals, astronauts in space, explorers in the jungle, gymnasts on our slack lines strung up between the trees and soldiers/members of the armed forces commando crawling through our obstacle course. Gold miners and treasure hunters, car mechanics and hairdressers have all featured throughout the forest this week too!

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend, see you next time!

Little Forest Folk
Twickenham