Green Trees Forest Schools

09/09/2026

🍂 AUTUMN ART AT TODDLER FOREST SCHOOL! 🍁🎨

This Friday is going to be a wonderfully messy, creative morning in the woods! 🌳

Our theme is AUTUMN ART — using leaves, sticks, seeds, pinecones and whatever else nature provides to create, explore and have fun. 🍃🍂🌰

There’s no pressure to make something “perfect”. It’s about children getting their hands involved, experimenting, discovering and seeing what they can create from the natural world around them.

We’ll have:

🍁 Autumn nature art and crafts
🎨 Plenty of messy, hands-on creating
🌳 Exploring and discovering the woodland
🪵 Natural materials to investigate and play with
☕ Tea and coffee for the grown-ups
🍎 Snacks for the little explorers
😊 And plenty of time simply to play, explore and enjoy being outdoors!

📅 This Friday
⏰ 10:00–11:30am

Come along, get creative and make some autumn memories with us. 🍂❤️

🌳 Book your place here:
Green Trees Forest Schools⁠

08/09/2026

🌿 Two Years Inside a Jar! 🌿

Two years ago, my son and I built our own little self-sustaining biodome.

We collected mud from the garden, moss and other tiny pieces of woodland, placed them inside a jar and sealed it airtight.

And then we waited… 🌱

Two years later, it’s still going.

Inside that little jar, water evaporates, condenses and falls again. Plants grow, die back and decompose, nutrients are recycled, and the whole miniature ecosystem changes with the seasons.

For children, something this simple can open up so many questions:

🍃 Where does the water go?
🌱 What do plants need to survive?
💧 Why is there condensation on the glass?
🪱 What happens when plants die?
🌍 How does an ecosystem recycle its resources?

That’s what I love about Forest School. Nature doesn’t have to be complicated. Sometimes an old jar, a handful of mud and some moss can become a science lesson that lasts years.

And best of all, it’s something children can create, observe and explore from their own home.

🌳 Green Trees Forest Schools
Learning through nature, exploration and adventure.

www.greentreesforestschools.com⁠

06/09/2026

🌳🔨 What on earth are we going to be doing at Toddler Forest School this Friday?! 🔨🌳

Well… I’m not telling you just yet! 👀😂

If you want to find out, why not come and join us for a morning of fun, exploring, creating and getting stuck into some Forest School crafts?

🌿 Outdoor exploring
🔨 Hands-on activities
🎨 Crafts and creativity
🧭 A little adventure
☕ Tea and coffee for the grown-ups
🍎 And a snack for our little explorers!

Come dressed for the outdoors and ready to discover what we’ve got planned. 🌳

📅 Friday
⏰ 10:00–11:30am
📍 Highworth

🌳 Green Trees Forest Schools

👉 Find out more and book your place:
www.greentreesforestschools.com⁠

Adventure. Explore. Discover. 🌿

06/09/2026

This is fascinating research 💚

Research that shows forest school isn't just fun — it's critical to health.

And studies show it transforms children's immune systems in just 28 days.

A groundbreaking experiment in Finland replaced gravel and asphalt in nursery playgrounds with patches of forest floor, complete with mosses, leaf litter, and wild undergrowth.

The results were staggering: In just 28 days, children who played in these rewilded yards developed more diverse skin and gut microbiomes along with higher levels of regulatory T-cells. This suggests that the biodiversity hypothesis—the idea that our sterile urban environments are linked to rising allergy and autoimmune rates—is a tangible reality we can change by simply reintroducing nature's microbial network to our daily lives.

source: Roslund, A. S., Puhakka, R., Grönroos, M., Nurminen, N., Oikarinen, S., Gazali, A. M., ... & Sinkkonen, A. (2020). Biodiversity intervention enhances immune regulation and health-associated commensal microbiota among daycare children. Science Advances.

04/09/2026

What a wonderful first Toddler Forest School session in Highworth! 🌳🍂

It was fantastic to meet so many amazing children, parents and carers today. Thank you to everyone who came along, explored, painted, mixed, played and joined us on our little nature walk.

There was plenty of messy play, creativity, exploring and discovering — exactly what Forest School should be about. Most importantly, there were lots of smiles and memories being made. 💚

🍁 NEXT FRIDAY: “What Can We Do With the Leaves?” 🍁

We’ll be discovering just how much fun you can have with something as simple as an autumn leaf!

🍂 Making and creating
🎨 Leaf art and crafts
🌳 Child-led play
🥾 A nature walk
🔎 Exploring and discovering
❤️ And, of course, making memories together

📍 Highworth
📅 Next Friday
⏰ 10:00–11:30am

Come dressed for the outdoors and ready to explore!

Find out more and book your place at:

Green Trees Forest Schools⁠

Explore. Discover. Create. Make memories. 🌳

04/09/2026

02/09/2026

🦔 TODDLER FOREST SCHOOL IN HIGHWORTH – THIS FRIDAY! 🌳

Looking for something different to do with your toddler this Friday morning?

Come and join us at Green Trees Forest Schools for a morning of outdoor play, exploring and discovering together!

This week is all about HEDGEHOGS! 🦔

🌿 Hedgehog activities and play
🪵 Mud kitchen & outdoor adventures
🎨 Crafts and exploring nature
🍎 Snacks for the little ones
☕ Tea & coffee for parents
🌳 And plenty of Forest School fun!

📅 Friday 4th September
⏰ 10:00–11:30am
📍 Highworth

Come along, get outdoors and let them explore!

www.greentreesforestschools.com

01/09/2026

🦋🌿 Meet the Box Tree Moth! 🌿🦋

This beautiful little moth is known as the box tree moth. 🦋

Beautiful to look at, but it isn’t native to the UK. It originates from East Asia and was first recorded in Europe around 2006.

🦋 It’s a brilliant species to show children and a great opportunity to talk about native and non-native wildlife, how different species become established in new places, and why we need to be careful about introducing non-native species into our ecosystems.

🌳 At Green Trees Forest Schools, this is what we love to do — explore and discover together.

We encourage children to get outdoors, look closely, ask questions, investigate what they find and develop a genuine connection with the natural world around them. 🌿🐛🦋🐞

Sometimes the smallest discovery can lead to the biggest conversation!

🌳 Come and explore and discover with us:
www.greentreesforestschools.com