by kindlinglily | Nov 28, 2012 | Forest School, Theory and Ideas
I thought I’d share with you a little doodle I had in the last edition of the Forest School Association newsletter. This is based on something that happened with a group I was working with a few years ago. When you follow the children’s ideas you end up in...
by kindlinglily | Feb 25, 2012 | Forest School, Theory and Ideas
“So, what makes you feel comfortable?” This was the question I asked a group of seven to nine year olds this week. We were in the woods for the first session of our Forest School sessions and I wanted to help focus them on what they would be doing over the...
by kindlinglily | Aug 1, 2011 | Creative Moments
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato I recently spent a wonderful 24hrs with my friend and her daughter, my goddaughter R. Now aged six, this is a child I have known since before she was born, we...
by kindlinglily | Jun 13, 2011 | Forest School, Theory and Ideas
I am, by nature a peaceful sort. However I often find myself building and making weapons. I do like the satisfaction of seeing a stick shooting off into the distance fired by a home made bow and we have made some constructions (that could best be described as siege...
by kindlinglily | May 2, 2011 | Forest School
I have a source of pride to share with you; I was the best tree climber in my street as a child. I was small and skinny and could hold on to thin branches my brother and his friends were too big to handle. I loved climbing trees, we would climb really really high....
