by kindlinglily | Dec 29, 2012 | Crafts and Projects
Every year we had make most of our Christmas gifts. My nieces and nephews are getting to an age where we can really really enjoy making stuff for them. I wanted to make a den building adventure kit for my oldest nephew. I had some ideas but I knew the Forest Education...
by kindlinglily | Dec 9, 2012 | Crafts and Projects, Forest School
I have set myself a creative challenge over on my Facebook page. Every day in December so far I have added a new winter festive craft made from things from the woods to a folder full of photographs. Here’s a round up of my daily ideas so far. I got this lovely...
by kindlinglily | Oct 31, 2012 | Crafts and Projects, Forest School
I’ve written before about building rope bridges among the trees and how fantastic they are for children’s motor development, encouraging social skills and confidence and being loads of fun. What I have also found is that adults who work with children are...
by kindlinglily | Apr 5, 2012 | Crafts and Projects
This is one of those things that I have been wanting to try for a while. I was invited to join a school’s staff Easter egg decorating competition. So I took the opportunity to dye some eggs using natural materials. In my mind, I would have time to transform the...
by kindlinglily | Oct 23, 2011 | Crafts and Projects
This is a wonderful creative technique that I often share with participants on training courses and with the children I work with. This week someone on a course made something so beautiful it reminded me I wanted to share this a bit more widely. Hapa Zome is the...
by kindlinglily | Jul 23, 2011 | Crafts and Projects
One of the elements I find really rewarding about working with lots of different groups of children and adults in different contexts is that the ideas and inspiration that develops with one group feeds into another and I often find themes emerging at certain times. As...
