Holiday Camps

Little Forest Folk holiday camps run at 7 of our London nurseries during the school holidays.

Our holiday camps are a wonderful opportunity for children aged three to seven to be immersed in nature in our magical forest settings. Our forest adventurers spend their days exploring, building dens, using tools, hunting for mini-beasts and creating works of forest art. We run, we climb, we balance and we laugh, thriving in spending time outdoors. Little Forest Folk's approach is child-led and play-based & we encourage children's imaginations to run wild!

Holiday camp days run from 8am to 6pm with drop off and pick up at our main drop-off point. Nutritious and homemade lunch and snacks are included. We can take children not enrolled at our nurseries aged three to seven and we usually recommend a minimum booking of two days per week.

Please find our Holiday Camp Terms and Conditions here.

February HOLIDAY CAMP

In 2026 our February Holiday Camp will run from Monday 16th February to Friday 20th February

Bookings are now closed but to check availability please email us at: info@littleforestfolk.com

WHEN OUR HOLIDAY CAMPS RUN

Our holiday camps run during:

February half term - Monday 16th February to Friday 20th February 2026

Easter holidays - Monday 30th March to Friday 10th April 2026
(Easter Bank Holidays - all nurseries closed): Friday 3rd & Monday 6th April)

May half term - Tuesday 26th May to Friday 29th May 2026

Summer holidays - From Monday 20th July - Friday 21st August 2026

You can see our full term dates here

Booking opens to the public five weeks before camp starts. An email will be sent out to families on our holiday camp mailing list, to notify them that booking has opened - you will then be able to book onto any available sessions via our online booking system. To sign up to our holiday camp mailing list, please input your details below.

Please note that booking for camp closes 2 weeks before the first day of camp. 

A TYPICAL DAY AT HOLIDAY CAMP

Children can be dropped off from 8am at our indoor setting, and we recommend arriving before 8:30am to enjoy breakfast with us. We then head over to our forest space and eat our morning snack around 10:00am. We then start our free play until lunch at midday; we ensure we all wash our hands before we enjoy our delicious child friendly lunch, then we start to get creative for more fun and adventures in the afternoon. Before we know it, it’s 3pm and time for our afternoon snack and then a short trip back to our indoor space for a warm and nutritious dinner before home time! We recommend collecting after 4:30pm if you would like your little one to enjoy dinner with us.

Like other Early Year settings in the UK, we follow the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) learning framework but we strongly believe in child-led and play-based learning too. 

Whilst your child is with us during holiday camps you can expect them to enjoy a wide range of activities, that will help build gross motor skills, practise their language, numeracy, and critical thinking, plus some wonderful sensory experiences and more such as; 

building dens 

creating magic potions in the mud kitchen 

constructing and climbing obstacle courses

going on exciting adventure walks 

making bracelets and necklaces from elder branches 

being shown how to safely set up pretend fires ready for the real deal with our wild cooking sessions 

mapping out bug hunts

blowing bubbles 

designing tie dye creations

sawing wood & using tools

making and flying kites

organising treasure hunts

painting on giant canvases

walking along the river and pond dipping

and so much more! 


The wonderful thing about our forest locations is that they are all unique and therefore each allows us a different range of activities! We have wonderful staff who are trained to show our little ones how to safely engage in all forest activities.

CAMP ESSENTIALS

We will be outdoors all day, every day, come rain or shine! To ensure campers are comfortable and prepared, please bring the following items to camp every day, labelled with your child's name and leave valuables at home:

  • Waterproof jacket and trousers - these are not provided for holiday campers and must be high quality waterproofs. If you would like to purchase a set of our Roarsome Summer/Winter waterproofs, please see below.

  • Wellies or sturdy footwear.

  • Complete change of clothes in a small backpack.

  • Reusable water bottle, full of water, labelled with your child’s name.

  • On warmer days pack a sunhat and apply a layer of suncream before morning drop off. 

  • Medication must be handed over to staff and will be kept in a locked box onsite (where possible, please administer all medication prior to drop off).

For more details on what to wear for camp see our recommended kit list here.

If you would like to purchase a set of Roarsome Waterproofs from us, to be collected on the first day of camp, please email info@littleforestfolk.com to arrange. The price is £120, for a set of Summer/Winter waterproofs which include a removable fleece lining.

We aim to bring you home happy, tired children at the end of each day who have had a blast in the forest. In order to ensure we keep your children happy I am afraid that we will not be able to take into the forest any children not dressed appropriately or without waterproof clothing during rainy days - the last thing we want is soggy, cold children! There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing... so dress them well and they will have a blast.

BOOKINGS AND CANCELLATIONS

All camp bookings made will be non-refundable and non-transferable. 

Need to ask more questions?

Please check out our Holiday Camp FAQ page here!

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