Tag Archives: forestkindergarten

Forest Kindergarten Training

It was lovely to spend the last 3 days at with my LtL colleague Steve delivering Forest Kindergarten training to West Dunbartonshire nursery staff. They were a pretty creative crew!
We couldn’t have asked for better weather to be outside sharing our passion for outdoor learning.

We got some pretty good feedback from participants too :

“Steve and Jane shared an abundance of knowledge and experience that has massively built my confidence with outdoor environments.”

“The way in which Steve and Jane delivered this course, made it easy to learn.”

“Both Steve and Jane were very enthusiastic and informative, I found them easy to listen to and found everything they spoke about interesting. I would definitely recommend this course to others!”

Woodland Play 30 Sept 2019

What a lovely autumn day we had today in the woods. We put up a hammock and the children enjoyed taking turns swinging in it. We made a fire and, this week for a change, cooked some damper bread over it. The children kneaded the dough before we wound it like a snack around a stick and held it over the fire. The wood was very damp so we all had to work hard to keep the fire going. We collected some wood to store which will hopefully keep a little drier for future occasions.

We were back in the woods today!

It was lovely to be back in the woods today! We have a new play site and enjoyed exploring it and seeing what different things we could find there. We had several new children with us today and it is amazing to see how much more confident and independent they became after just a few hours in the woods. We are looking forward to seeing how our sessions develop as we become more familiar with the new site.

We each chose a special tree in our site and gave it a name. The names we chose were Nursery, Bramble, Firework, Violet, Tractor, Baby Teddy, Florence and Lanky Larry. We will be keeping an eye on our trees as we move further into autumn and then winter so see how they change.