Our Week in the Forest

What a fantastic week we have had here at Little Forest Folk Fulham. This fortnight, our intention has been supporting our smaller adventurers with their PSED and our older crew with their fine motor Physical Development - and we have achieved exactly that! 🌟

We encouraged our younger cohort to engage in some tool-based activities, using hammers to press the pigment out of flower petals, a Fulham favourite! 🌺 The dedication and skilled hand movements really challenge resilience and perseverance, which we wonderfully saw a whole lot of. Children were supported with positive feedback and praise as they mastered their new skill. 🔨

There’s a hole in the boat! 🚤 We transformed camp into a pirate ship using wooden pallets and crates, although sadly a shark must have been munching a hole through the bottom! Children used loose parts to mend the boat and stop it from sinking. In our outdoor environment children are continuously carrying out their own risk assessments, from their navigation of climbing frames to choosing which tree stump to balance on. We supported our little adventurers to take ownership of their risk assessment skills and become Site Managers of the shipwreck site! Children used clipboards and popped on their hard hats and assessed their environment! 🏴‍☠️

We had a pizza-themed mud kitchen area this week, equipped with its very own ‘pizza oven’ and ‘blaring fire’! 🍕 Children experimented with different tools to roll out their dough (clay). We discussed shape and form and moulded our flattened dough into a large circle. We topped our pizzas with smaller formed clay pieces and lots of nature's treasures, like stones and leaves. We discussed quantities and numbers by slicing our pizzas into sections, then into the oven they went! 🔥

Let’s make some gooey slime! We had a sensory haven this week with a cosy book corner, an emotion check-in corner, wind chimes and lots of opportunities to experience new textures and sensory materials. Once the slime had been mixed, our Little Forest Folk-ers poured in shiny pigment powders to create marbled effects on the surface. We used new descriptive vocabulary like ‘marbled’, ‘chrome’ and ‘metallic’ to equip our adventurers with language to describe their experiences with more depth and detail.

Little Forest Folk
Fulham