We headed to the park to fly the kite! We waited for a gust of wind to ensure the kite was able to fly and then the children enjoyed running up and down the grass to allow the kite to get some height.

We also did some more tool work this week, making more habitats for bugs and adding them to the bug hotel. The children whittled sticks and placed them in tins to create a little house for the insects to climb in and out of. It was great to see the children testing their whittling skills and also seeing our new children taking part too.

We have made rivers by pushing the water down hills, added the rain water to our mud kitchen recipes and used it to test out our fine motor skills with collecting items from the puddles.

The children have been lucky enough to have lots of fires recently and we have all enjoyed taking part in cooking lots of different things. One of the delicious treats we’ve cooked up again this week was Bannock, a type of bread made on the fire.

This week started off with some cooking and our budding chefs used some apples from one of our friend’s gardens to make an apple cake.

We went on an adventure mission, looking for frogs, tadpoles

Our Little Forest Folk-ers have been creating their own verses to songs besides making their own microphones and musical shakers to go along with their tunes.

Bugs, adventure walks and necklace making - just some of the fun things that have been happening at Little Forest Folk Wimbledon this week! 

We have enjoyed some exciting tool work this week, which included sawing wood cookies and making necklaces out of brambles.

We've also been going on lots of imaginary adventures this week on the Wimbledon puppy bus! On Monday we found ourselves suddenly turned into puppies!

Nature painting involved the children finding different plants, pinecones and leaves from around the forest and then dipping them into paint to create a pattern. It was lovely to see all of the different patterns, colours and pictures that were created.

At Wimbledon, our hottest activities of the day are our walk into and out of the forest, due to the lack of tree canopy walking across the meadows, but we did not fret, as our amazing educators set up cooling activities to take part in from the get go!

Our Little Forest Folk-ers really focused on tool work and physical skills this week. One of the things they did was some whittling to create mini stick characters.