A Taste of Forest School

Our local children’s centre organises a great summer holiday programme. The event on Saturday was called ‘Down the Woods’, run by a forest school practitioner and held at Mardley Heath Nature Reserve (next to the children’s centre).

When we walked into the woods, we found lots of activities had been set up from making necklaces out of wood and bark, blowing bubbles, mud painting, making bear faces and rolling balls down chutes. We continued the walk through the woods following the adventures in ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. My favourite bit was walking through the white ribbon hanging from trees to represent snow storms.

At the end of the walk, we lit a fire in a fire pit and toasted marshmallows. The children loved the couple of hours they spent playing with other children in the woods. Alice’s favourite activity was making magic potions, bashing herbs with a wooden pestle and mortar. Oliver loved playing on a rope swing. We all wish we could have more regular forest school sessions!