by Ellie | Sep 11, 2021 | activities for the kids!!
A colour hunt is probably the simplest scavenger hunt to do! We used cardboard from a few boxes. Made them into board shapes. Added colour dots and words. Grabbed the tape and off we went! It is fabulous when children are able to go off in all directions hunting for...
by Ellie | Aug 30, 2021 | activities for the kids!!, nature curriculum
One of the benefits to growing a lot of our own produce here is that we have lots of beasties to then explore for Forest school and Outdoor Learning sessions! This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Definitely one of those book up there on the...
by Ellie | Apr 30, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
So it’s dandelion season!!! Wait say you she has the title set as frogspawn jelly!! Ha ha!! Well when you work with children who like to gross out their parents…. well you bet inventive!! We went picking dandelions We then made dandelion jelly Ingredients...
by Ellie | Feb 19, 2021 | Foraging Fridays
Can you smell it? Yes even with the freezing conditions last week the smell on the air had changed and spring is most definitely coming! Longer days, warmer days…. Apparently distracted by the snow and ice last week I forgot to post a foraging Friday. I...
by Ellie | Feb 5, 2021 | Foraging Fancies, Foraging Fridays
Starting to peek through in our wild expanse of land are a few nettles. This belies how many we actually have here on an annual basis…. in fact since we bought the smallholding we have been battling brambles and nettles. We leave large patches of both in various...
