Our Week in the Forest

At Little Forest Folk Twickenham we have had a glorious week as we have continued to learn about the world around us.

We have learnt about the importance of recycling and about how dangerous it is for plastics to get into the ocean. We also talked about how the birds, turtles and fish can die from either ingesting or getting tangled up in ocean plastic. Whilst focussing on this, we drew a huge whale on a sheet of cardboard and painted half of him blue. The other half we stuck on plastic rubbish, bags, cartons containers, bottle tops, plastic string etc as if he had accidentally eaten the plastic. He understandably had a very unhappy face in the painting too!

On a happier note we started raking the soil, weeding, sieving soil and sowing seeds. We talked about how important it is to have soil, sunshine and water for the seeds and (later) the plants to grow.

Bug hunts were very popular this week as the forest began to come to life after a wet cold winter. We have put out bowls of water for the bees and birds, turned over logs to check for creepy crawlies, investigated our bug hotel and said hello to the wolf spider. We then checked our tally list of what creatures we have seen. We saw a mayfly, a hawthorn fly, leopard slug, hoverfly, a black lady bird with red spots and the wolf spider all on the same day.

Thanks for coming to the forest, see you again next time.

Little Forest Folk
Twickenham