by kindlinglily | Nov 29, 2010 | Case Studies
As the children had their lunch I went up to the treehouse site (if you are new to this project then catch up here and here). I wanted to check things over and see what things looked like without half a dozen small bodies on top of the walls and door frame. A group of...
by kindlinglily | Nov 28, 2010 | Case Studies
Last week I began a child led project with a foundation stage group of children to build a treehouse. It was a very process oriented project. The children were content to have moved from hammering, sawing and drilling around a table inside, to have moved to hammering,...
by kindlinglily | Nov 19, 2010 | Case Studies
After the popularity of the work bench in the Atelier I was reflecting on how we could keep developing our skills with the tools and make a collaborative project. I also wanted to take the work bench outside. Over the next few sessions we have some different tools,...
by kindlinglily | Nov 5, 2010 | Case Studies
So far this week we have only had to down tools to deal with an injury twice. Once for a very small cut that needed a plaster and once for a finger, that got hit with a hammer slightly harder than all the other times we hit our fingers and thumbs with a hammer. Not a...
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...