Our Week in the Forest

The theme for this week has been birds and especially owls. Our favourite book has been “Owl Babies” by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson.

Our arts and crafts table has been very busy as one day we made owl masks and hooted our way round the forest flapping our arms and swooping around. Some of the children pretended they were the baby owls sitting on crates (branches) and others were mummy owls flying silently back to the babies.

We used toilet roll tubes to make owls adding glue and feathers to create their bodies, as we chatted about what owls eat (mice) and what sort of nest an owl has, is it made of sticks and feathers? What colour eyes do owls have? All this curiosity in turn led to making our own nests. With some slim and bendy Linden suckers we twisted them around and around weaving the sucker in and out of itself creating a nest that looked like a coronet.

One of our educators brought in a fabulous clock one day with 12 birds upon the clock face and each time the clock reached the “o’clock” time a different bird would sing their beautiful song. The robin, blue tit, chaffinch, owl etc. When the robin sang at 11 o’clock our robins in the forest sang back to the clock!

One day the children and educators built an ingenious rope contraption suspended between the trees and we added a basket to the ropes so that items could be placed in the basket and then transported along the rope to another area. This led to shopping expeditions, treasure hunting and curiosity of how much the basket could hold.

Thanks for coming to the forest, see you next time!

Little Forest Folk
Twickenham