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 | Oct 11, 2012 | Creative Moments
I have recently come back from a month long trip deep into the wilderness in NW Ontario, Canada. Which almost explains how quiet I have been here recently. It has been a lot to process. I have talked before about how I the work I do encourages children to challenge...
by kindlinglily | May 14, 2012 | Case Studies
I recently spent a week in Hamburg and Berlin with a study tour for play professionals co-ordinated by ip-dip.com and www.meynellgames.org. The tour took us to scrapstores, adventure playgrounds, public parks and playspaces, community provision, waldkindergarten and...
by kindlinglily | Apr 27, 2012 | Case Studies
So the cliché goes, there are lots of things Germany does well; public transport, sausages, compound nouns… actually all these things are true, but I’ve been discovering that in Berlin and Hamburg there are some other things that are done well;...
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...