Little Forest Folk

🌳"Not all classrooms have four walls" - Margaret McMillan.

🌳Our Little Forest Folk-ers have been trying all sorts of forest tool activities at our holiday camp in Twickenham this Summer!

📿Their favourite was nature jewellery making where they cut up an elder branch into small 2cm lengths and with a thin tent peg pushed out the pithy, soft centre to create a bead. They repeated this on a thick blackberry stalk to make some chunkier beads before making them into necklaces and bracelets!

🪚On another day they got to practise their sawing skills. Carefully learning to work with a large bow saw, they cut discs of wood from a large branch creating tree cookies. They then decorated their own cookies with colourful pens!

🔨Our little explorers even got to use hammers to carefully knock nails into a small piece of wood before attaching their favourite colours of wool to one of the nails. By twisting the wool around the nails they created beautiful nail art that could be undone and rewound again and again to create different patterns.

📩Tool work is just one of the fantastic activities we offer during our holiday camps. If you think your little one would love to try email us on [email protected]!

🌳Our swings are always a popular activity and have bought non-stop joy recently at our Putney Heath nursery! ⁠
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🏋️Our Little Forest Folk-ers have been using their core strength to keep swinging and have been incredibly creative, leaning all the way back to look at the trees above them and twisting round and round to spin to their hearts' content. ⁠

💪This play not only strengthens their bodies but also enhances their spatial awareness, coordination and independence!

✨Swings are just one of the exciting activities on offer for little ones joining us in the forest for holiday camp - click the link in our bio to book a place for your little one or DM us for more details!

✨ Always a firm favourite in the forest - we wanted to share the recipe for our tasty slow cooked beans!⁠
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👩‍🍳Another delicious meal created by ⁠
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💚Be sure to tag us and if you try this at home with your little ones!

🌿Little Forest Folk Winkworth - Forest Fun Day!
📅Saturday 8th August
⏰10am-3pm
🧑‍🏫Recruitment information event with our HR team - find Suzie by the visitor centre!
😎Stay & Play for little explorers - find Karlenne at our forest camp to talk about your little one joining us in the forest.
✨ Activities for little ones include mud kitchen fun plus making tree cookies & natural wands, while you stay and chat to the team!
🤩We can have little ones join us from 8am-6pm, 51 weeks of the year, from age 18 months and up!
💚Find Suzie by the visitor centre for directions to our forest camp!

👩‍🌾At our wonderful Fulham nursery our educators are superstars when it comes to foraging for found materials and giving new purpose to discarded items!

🌿Utilising the natural treasures around them, Katie went searching in the compost looking for recently snipped tree branches from the gardeners or wilting flowers from the florist. She accumulated a bunch of petals, flowers and herbs, perfect for some natural arts and crafts.

💐Our Little Forest Folk-ers used some double sided tape to create a sticky surface on some colourful cards. They chose natural items to stick onto their canvases and made some beautiful compositions and arrangements!

🎈Happy 9th Birthday to our brilliant Putney Heath team!

✨Thank you for creating such magical, adventure filled days in the forest for our Little Forest Folk-ers!

🎓The last day of summer term 2026!⁠
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✨Last week we reached the end of the school year and bid farewell to the summer term! Emotions are running high at Little Forest Folk as over the next few weeks we'll be saying goodbye to some of our best friends who are leaving the forest to move on to big school. We will cherish the memories we've created together and carry the joy of their laughter with us always.⁠
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💚We know this is not goodbye, instead a 'see you soon' at one of our holiday camps! Until then we are wishing you all the best of luck with school, we know you will all be superstars!