Ladybirds, Paint Splatting, World Book Day and Shire Horses
With a chill back in trees, our Little Forest Folk-ers have kept themselves busy with LOTS of activities.
Little tasty ladybirds buzzed through our camps as our adventurers developed their fine motor skills, chopping and slicing fruits to build their insects. Banana bases, basil leaves, blueberry faces, and strawberry wings made a very yummy snack!
Our children used a hand-crafted wooden mallet to practise tent pitching and to also create some colourful painted tapestries. Making a cloth sandwich, the blobs of paint were hammered with the mallet to make humongous paint bubbles! POP!
To celebrate World Book Day, our forest was jam packed with characters. Inspired by authors like Julia Donaldson, Valerie Thomas and, of course, Marvel comics, educators and explorers dressed to impress. Witches flew through camp on their brooms, skeletons trudged through the mud and police officers and superheroes saved the day!
Our highlight of the week was meeting Chiswick House and Gardens very own Shire Horse! This magnificent animal moved around our forest to move huge logs and rip out metal fences. His name was William and was six years old!! We watched completely stunned as he worked. When we got back to camp, we turned ourselves into Shire horses, dragging small logs behind us and galloping around camp!
Joke of the week: how did one horse greet the other?
Hay!
Little Forest Folk
Chiswick