Bright Sparks Forest School

Festive forest school fun

Last week in our preschool forest school groups the children enjoyed listening to the story called 'Archie's Treasures' and decorated their own bags by printing flowers on their bags using a hammer. They explored the forest school area and found lots of wonderful treasures of their own to put in their bags. The children also had fun investigating the ice they found in different places around forest school and showed great knowledge of how ice is made. It was a very busy week of imaginative play and clever constructions using natural items to make mini animal dens as well as creating stories with the animal puppets in the puppet theatre.

This term our preschool forest school groups went out for a walk along Halberry lane track. Using all of our senses we searched for lots of interesting things to put in our scavenger hunt boxes and learnt all about the changing seasons.

The children from my Summerfields school group today made some beautiful poppy nail art and made some pumpkin bird feeders to hang in their gardens.

Just a few photos of last terms forest school sessions in pre-school. It's been such a busy start to the year that I have been a little slack with our pages.
I hope you enjoy browsing the photos of the fun things the children have enjoyed over the last few weeks.

What a fabulous first week our new preschool groups have had in forest school.
We always introduce our forest school session around the fire circle explaining about the risks in our forest school environment. Both of our pre-school groups amazed us with prior knowledge of things that could be dangerous. We started our first sessions by going on a tour of the area to help familiarise the children with each area and what activities will be available to them. Whilst we carry out the tour of forest school we identify risks along the way and the children take turns to place a red flag next to each one.
The activities we provide for the first couple of weeks closely relate to things the children are familiar with in pre-school which helps them to feel comfortable and settled in the new environment. This works well, the children were happy to go off and initiate their own play without the intervention of the adults and were very happy throughout, telling the adults how much they loved forest school.

Thought I would share my Halloween holiday club for anyone needing something exciting for their children to do over October half term. Fun packed days of spooky activities!

If you like our forest school page, maybe you should check out our Bright Sparks preschool page too

Are you looking for ideas for your children to do during the summer holidays? Why not book a day with us at Bright Sparks Forest school. All details of days available and cost in on the advert below.

Check out our wonderful bubble wands we made this week. The children had to drill a hole in their sycamore with a conker drill and twist their pipe cleaner to make the loop. They then threaded some beads on for decoration and of course had fun testing them out. The wind over the last two days really helped to create some awesome bubbles indeed!

The children this week have made beautiful rainbow leaf prints and did so well carefully painting colourful stripes onto their leaves. They have also been learning about the different types of slugs and snails looking carefully at the patterns and colours on their bodies and shells to match to their identification sheets.

There was much fascination in forest school this morning when we found a giant hole in the grassy mound. The children inspected the hole trying to decide what could have done such a thing. They thought it could have been a snake or maybe a badger but the final decision was that it was made by a monster mole. We are hoping to set up a night camera so that the children can see what visits our area at night