This week was Bank Holiday week. 🕺🏻We missed Monday, but Tuesday was all the more fun because we got to hear all about what our friends had been up to - Little Forest Folk Fulham traversed the country from the Isle of Wight to Manchester and Scotland! 📍 Talk about going the extra mile!
This week was super exciting because it was our Holiday Camp week! 🏕️ We had new friends joining us every day! Many of the holiday campers were familiar returning faces and it was super fun to catch up with old friends. 😎 Of course, we missed our sessional friends, but we had so much fun with the holiday campers and can’t wait to catch up with our sessional crew to tell them all about it! ✨ After all, making new friends and experiencing shared outdoor adventures is what forest nursery is all about. 🌿🤝
On Tuesday, we had a grape day - sorry, I mean great day. Or do I? 🍇 After all, it was National Grape Day! (In case you’ve been living under a rock - or maybe under a foot? …that is how they make wine, right?) 😉
You might be wondering how one celebrates National Grape Day at a nursery. Well, we came up with a grape idea - doing a spotlight day on the popular children’s book Handa’s Surprise, which, of course, features a bunch of fruity fun! 📚🍌🍍🍊🍇 It was a bit rainy - but that didn’t stop us! The weather was pear-fect for making fruit smoothies in the mud kitchen! 🍓🍌🍍We chatted all about fruit, our grape-est favourites, and set up our very own Forest Juice Bar! Yum! 🍇🍉🍊
We hope you don’t think it’s silly to celebrate National Grape Day - because the rest of the week only got sillier! 😄
On Wednesday, it was goodbye to national themed days and hello World Otter Day! 🦦🌍
I know what you’re thinking… that sounds otterly fun! 🦦 And you’d be right!
In the morning, we made otter face masks! Our Little Forest Folk-ers are already otterly adorable, but dressed as otters? It was paws-itively ridiculous! 🐾🥹 We had climbing frames, books, a special tent for hiding in, a mud kitchen and so much more - perfect, because otters love to play!
Did you know otters are one of the few animals that use tools? Given this, it was the perfect day to get creative in our mud kitchen with culinary tools! 🍴🌿
In the afternoon, we went on a long adventure walk! It was so much fun showing our holiday campers all our favourite spots. And in true otter fashion, everyone held hands with a friend - or should I say, significant otter. 🦦
We found a shady spot and did some yoga - camel 🐫, downward dog 🐶, pigeon 🕊️... but sadly, no one knew a pose called “otter.” Looks like we’ll have to invent one! 🧘♂️ After all, yoga’s been around for thousands of years… it’s about time we added an otter one to the list!
On Thursday, the theme was much more sensible: National Biscuit Day! We celebrated in style with a tea party setup! We enjoyed a high tea so fancy it was fit for royal-tea 👑, with every imaginable tea and biscuit combination 🍪. As for me, I’ll take a builder’s and a digestive, please! 😊
We had a colouring station to colour in all our nation’s favourite biscuits - after all, it was only National Biscuit Day!
🖍️🍪 We coloured in Jammy Dodgers, Custard Creams, and Bourbons, to name a few! 🎨✨
However, the pièce de résistance of our day was the clay station, perfect for making every biscuit imaginable! 🍪🎉 Our pastry chefs did an amazing job! And now, we’re all as full as the Tiger Who Came For Tea! 🐯🍽️ Crumbs, we had fun!
Taking a break from biscuits, we had a special visit from a very rare forest friend: a stag beetle! 🪲 They can be quite dangerous, so we were super lucky to have a gardener in gloves to show us the beetle up close. You won’t believe it - he was the second one we found that day! The first was a massive female hiding by the outdoor door in our indoor space. The stag beetle is pretty rare and the biggest beetle in Europe, so we felt incredibly lucky to see such a majestic creature up close! 🌿✨
Finally, on Friday, we celebrated the last day with our holiday camper friends with a special circus setup! 🎪🤹♀️ We had juggling balls, silk ribbons, clowns, dancing and so much more! 🎉🤡💃
Circuses travel all over the world and return to the same place every year, so it was the perfect theme to say farewell to our holiday camp friends! 🎟️🌍 Many will return to all over London and even the world, but we hope to see them again soon! 🤞😊
Until then, it’s over and out to the weekend! ✌️✨ We hope it will be just as magical as the week! 🌟😊
Little Forest Folk
Fulham