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Little Forest Folk Wandsworth Open Day

We are very excited to announce we will be opening our Wandsworth Little Forest Folk this year. We’d love to invite you to our first Open Day on Friday 26th February 2016 to tell you all about it.

From 10am to 4pm our fabulous Wandsworth team will be available at the Naturescope centre on the common (next door to the Skylark cafe, just off Dorlcote Road) to tell you more about Little Forest Folk.

Our team of staff, managed by the energetic Lil Hansen along with our founder Leanna Barrett will look forward to meeting with all of our potential new families. Please come along to learn more about our concept, have a tour of our facilities, view our equipment and menus, meet our special team and understand why your children will utterly love to join us in our adventures.

Feel free to pop along at any time to join us as we will be there all day, however we will be holding information sessions at 10.30am, 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2.30pm & 3.30pm. To guarantee a place at an information session, you are welcome to book your family in, however we will do our best on the day to accommodate as many drop in families as we can fit into the centre.

On the day we shall be using the Naturescope garden area to give you a taste of the unique approach to play and learning that we offer in our predominantly forest based setting. You will have a chance to take a look at our equipment, chat to our staff about our concept and give your children a sense of how much fun we have at Little Forest Folk!

To book in for any of the information sessions or to enquire about our waiting list, please use our online form

We look forward to seeing you then.

Little Forest Folk

Fun in the forest

Twickenham - The Year of the Horse, Flipping Pancakes and Holiday Campers

Hurrah, we have had a fabulous week in the forest this week welcoming our holiday campers into our space for half term. We’ve made new friends and welcomed back some old ones and we have all had a delightful time.

Winkworth - Special Days and Celebrations!

🎶Five crispy pancakes in a frying pan, flip them and toss them and catch them if you can. Along came (Child's name) for a pancake one day. S/He sprinkled it with sugar and took it away…..Four crispy pancakes in a frying pan, Flip them and toss them and catch them if you can. 🎶

Wimbledon Village - Lunar New Year and the Great Race

We have also spent time educating the children about the Lunar New Year. We read the book “The Great Race” which is a children’s adaptation of the story of Chinese New Year and we also enjoyed exploring a tuff tray filled with rice, Chinese takeaway menus and little red envelopes to symbolise the start of Lunar New Year. A big happy Lunar New Year to all of our Chinese families.

Wimbledon - Celebrating Lunar New Year, Pancake Day and Ramadan!

This week has been busy at Little Forest Folk Wimbledon! We have been celebrating Lunar New Year, Pancake Day and Ramadan! The children have enjoyed so many fun and exciting activities to celebrate all of these holidays, everything from fires to lantern making.

We have enjoyed some big adventure walks nearly every day and have given our Little Forest Folk-ers the responsibility of choosing which directions we are going in. Each time they have been able to recall spaces we are familiar with and have taken us on the right track. We went to a horse jumping arena for a picnic lunch, on a bird watching expedition to see how many different bird breeds we could find and also looked out for frogs as well as other animals around the forest. It creates wonderful conversations and widens everyone’s imaginations when we go on these walks, at the same time as showing how exciting the forest can be in all weathers!

The mud kitchen has also been a huge focus with a café and everyone talking about the meals they have with their family. We have spent time looking into each other's favourite meals, using the items around us to create them and thinking about ways we can add to them. This has also shown us an insight into our friend’s homes and how we share our family time differently.

The rain may have made the sky grey, but it has certainly not dulled any colours in our play and fun in the forest!!

Putney Heath - Exploring and Creating!

What an incredible week it has been in the forest! The children have been busy exploring, learning and creating, making the most of the sunshine and the great outdoors.

Morden - ⭐️ Seeds, Sounds & Sensory Surprises, Understanding the World

Our focus this week has been “Understanding the World,” and we’ve embraced it with curiosity & enthusiasm. With the first gentle signs of spring beginning to emerge in our forest it felt like the perfect moment to plant our very first seedlings; sweet peas. Using recycled toilet roll holders, our careful and capable adventurers thoughtfully planted each seed. 🌼

Fulham - 💛✨ Pancakes, Planets and Lunar New Year✨

After lots of teamwork making pancakes, we had a lovely sticky jam. We packaged up our creations and then took them outside to eat, picnic style! 🫐

Chiswick - Celebrations and Creativity

What a joyful and action-packed week we’ve had in the forest! From food celebrations to cultural learning and energetic games, the children have been busy celebrating all week long.

Twickenham - Curious Scientific Investigation

We have been learning about the human body and what is inside our bodies. The human heart has been a strong topic of conversation for us as we can feel our hearts beat when we run around and we can see our skin turn pink when we get hot. If we cut or scrape ourselves we see the blood leak out, all these observations have captivated our little investigators.

Winkworth - Building worlds and imaginations

This week at Little Forest Folk Winkworth we’ve been continuing to focus on supporting the children to build independently with a wide range of resources to make and enjoy imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’.