by kindlinglily | Oct 29, 2010 | Case Studies
Being known as ‘Lily who plays out for a living’ has some drawbacks…..erm…. I’ll tell you what they are when I think of them… Excitingly, this winter, I will also be playing indoors too! A wonderful school has invited me into their...
by kindlinglily | Oct 26, 2010 | Crafts and Projects
I remember back to when I first started working with children, and I remember distinctly the first group of children I ever took into the woods. We followed a trail that was marked with posts and signs and the children loved running from one signpost to another,...
by kindlinglily | Oct 21, 2010 | Case Studies, Forest School
Kindling delivered a training day with a wonderful enthusiastic group of Early Years practitioners on Monday. To end the session we talked about how being outdoors makes us feel. We had been in the woods for most of the day and I asked them, based on the emotions and...
by kindlinglily | Oct 19, 2010 | Creative Moments
If you were given a map like this one, you would have to check it out, wouldn’t you? I was given this map yesterday and followed it to a special place in the woods: And there, in the woods, I found all the fairie’s houses. Generations of them, some with...
by kindlinglily | Oct 14, 2010 | Theory and Ideas
I have searched the whole internet to see if this has been posted anywhere else and it hasn’t. It isn’t mine, I can claim nothing but having found this a few years back and saved it. I would love to credit “Jacky” so if that’s you, or you...
