Little Forest Folk

18 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Fulham - Forest experiments

Little Forest Folk

18 June 2018

Our week in the forest

There has been a strong experimental element in the forest this week. We’ve had erupting volcanos, blasting space rockets, a wormery and forming crystallisations.

Little Forest Folk

18 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wandsworth - Imaginative stories

Little Forest Folk

18 June 2018

Our week in the forest

The forest has been as wild as ever this week! We have been blessed with some lovely days that warmed us up and allowed the children to really get into some water play.

Little Forest Folk

15 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wimbledon - Animal masks

Little Forest Folk

15 June 2018

Our week in the forest

If you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise. The Little Forest Folk-ers transformed themselves this week into a complete menagerie of different animals using masks, which produced some wonderful play and encouragement to try new things.

Little Forest Folk

11 June 2018

Awards and Testimonials

We're in the paper!

Little Forest Folk

11 June 2018

Awards and Testimonials

Following the announcement of our Queen’s award in April, we are delighted to share an article written about Little Forest Folk by a journalist who visited us in May.

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Chiswick - Using Our Senses

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

What a busy week in the forest. We have been enjoying a wide range of books, with The Rainbow Fish being a particular favourite. The fish sharing his scales led to some interesting conversations about helping our friends and being kind.

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wimbledon - Little Chefs

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Big sticks are brilliant! Our children have really been using their muscles this week as they have shown great interest in big sticks and branches.

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wandsworth - Scavenger Hunts

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

It has been lovely to welcome back all of our friends from half term this week and as well as doing regular climbing, exploring and foraging, we have been using some new materials on site which the children have really enjoyed getting their fingers stuck into…literally.

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Fulham - Feathers, Leaves, Stones & Sticks

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Fulham - Feathers, Leaves, Stones & Sticks

We’ve had a lovely week filled with lots of forest school activities. One activity, the children have continued to enjoy and build upon, quite literally, was the construction of mini parks.

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Barnes - Fishing rods!

Little Forest Folk

8 June 2018

Our week in the forest

The children have been super busy this week showing a new kind of creativity through tool work. The children used the bow saw to cut their own log slices, choosing the log to cut and the length to cut it.

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Barnes - Vegetable patch!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

This week our holiday camp has seen the introduction of some new tools, some fantastic extended role-play and some palaeontologists at work! We also had all different kinds of weather including some very exciting thunder and lightning!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Chiswick - Forest poetry

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

This week we have been enjoying poems with the children and Amie thought it would be only right to create a wonderful poem for our newsletter this week!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Fulham - New friends!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

One of the best things about holiday camp is the gasp of amazement from the new children when they see base camp for the first time.

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wandsworth - Electrical storms

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

It has been a very exciting week in the forest with the arrival of our holiday camper friends and the onset of the electric storms!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

Wimbledon - Dinosaur eggs!

Little Forest Folk

1 June 2018

Our week in the forest

What an adventurous week we’ve had in the forest! Every day has seen groups going out to explore the wider forest and coming back with tales of amazing sites and wondrous discoveries. One group went in search of dinosaurs and they were in for a real treat.

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Barnes - Boat races

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Big ideas, projects and lateral thinking have been integral to the children’s experience this week!

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Chiswick - Log trail

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

This week we headed to Kew Gardens ready for a big walk to the log trail on the other side of the park. The children all put on their strong legs and marched ¾ of the way there before it was time for lunch.

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Fulham - Problem solving

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Cable reels, logs, planks of wood, benches, ropes and natural materials may have been what the educators saw, but through the eyes of our Little Forest Folk-ers, it was all so much more exciting than that; all week in the forest the children have been using their imagination to turn our loose parts into amazing constructions.

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Wandsworth - Tadpoles

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Last week we saw the arrival of tadpoles to our site and throughout this week we have been learning the full story of the life cycle of frogs.

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Wimbledon - Screen printing

Little Forest Folk

25 May 2018

Our week in the forest

We have enjoyed such a variety of experiences in the forest this week, it’s difficult to narrow it down for the newsletter!

Little Forest Folk

18 May 2018

Our week in the forest

Barnes - Adventure and Investigation

Little Forest Folk

18 May 2018

Our week in the forest

This week has been full of adventure, investigation and new projects!

The week started with our first day playing at our new site at Rocks Lane. The children were so excited to explore this new area.