We had a lovely party in the forest this week! Otis is a skilled balloon animal maker, and was making dogs, mice, and pirate swords! We really loved creative play with our balloons, sailing on our pirate ship, walking our doggies in the park, and wearing our stylish new hats!

We have a huge love for transport-based play in our Morden forest! A small group of children sat down with practitioner Teo and a pen and paper, to plan out a design for a train, counting how many wheels we’d need, how many carriages, and other things that we’d need, like “an engine” and “big windows” and “a driver!”.

It’s been so much fun to watch how our new forest grows and changes as our ideas develop! The children really enjoyed exploring around our ‘forest maze’ earlier this week; we had long branches laid out in a pattern to make a winding path in a square shape, with flour sprinkled on the paths to guide us as we walked.