Sessions can be adapted to suit EYFS, Key Stage 1 and 2 - please note your requirements on the booking form.
Literacy
When's a stick not a stick?
When it's a metaphor! Use trees as the inspiration to create your own forest poem with a range of hands on activities. Including Meet a Tree, Leaf Windows and a stick craft. Half day can be linked to the Stick Man story for a full day activity.
Curriculum Links: Poetry, Composition. Evaluate and edit. Reading aloud.
SMSC: Experiencing nature at first hand, investigating the world around us and comparing environments. Fostering an appreciation of the environment and living things.
Forest Fables
Bring traditional tales and modern classics to life with a range of activities inspired by the forest. Choose from a wide range of stories and activities, pleasae indicate your choice of story on the booking form. These are some of our favourites the possibilities are endless, if you can't see a story you'd like we are happy to adapt sessions to meet your needs:
Gruffalo- read the story and create a Gruffalo woodland feast using mud and scavenged materials. Explore different anaimals viewpoints of the forest. Links to textures, anaimals, free-play and role-play.
Three Little Pigs - Create the characters for the story using natural materials. Then extend the learning by creating our own dens big or small. Session includes den building, discovering material properties, exploring and collecting natural materials. Role Play.
Three Billy Goats Gruff - Boggarts and troll faces, exploring bridges and balancing. can we make it across the clip clop bridge?
Going on a Bear Hunt - Mapping on the woodland floor, hide and seek, exploration of the woodland and create your own bear hunt and associated descriptive words through the forest.
Stick Man - Can you find your Stick Man in the forest? Create your Stick Man from natural materials then extend the story through role play to explore the forest habitat, find your family tree, perhaps turn your Stick Man into numerous sticky things!
Superworm - Go on a minibeast hunt to see if we can discover some of the creatures that helped superworm in the story- create your own superworm to extend the story through role play in the forest habitat.
Room on the broom - create besom brooms, whiffy potions and explore the forest using our senses.
Gruffalo- read the story and create a Gruffalo woodland feast using mud and scavenged materials. Explore different anaimals viewpoints of the forest. Links to textures, anaimals, free-play and role-play.
Three Little Pigs - Create the characters for the story using natural materials. Then extend the learning by creating our own dens big or small. Session includes den building, discovering material properties, exploring and collecting natural materials. Role Play.
Three Billy Goats Gruff - Boggarts and troll faces, exploring bridges and balancing. can we make it across the clip clop bridge?
Going on a Bear Hunt - Mapping on the woodland floor, hide and seek, exploration of the woodland and create your own bear hunt and associated descriptive words through the forest.
Stick Man - Can you find your Stick Man in the forest? Create your Stick Man from natural materials then extend the story through role play to explore the forest habitat, find your family tree, perhaps turn your Stick Man into numerous sticky things!
Superworm - Go on a minibeast hunt to see if we can discover some of the creatures that helped superworm in the story- create your own superworm to extend the story through role play in the forest habitat.
Room on the broom - create besom brooms, whiffy potions and explore the forest using our senses.
Curriculum Links: Encourage to link what they hear to their own experiences. Become familiar with key stories and traditional tales. Recognise and join in with predictable phrases. Learn to appreciate rymes. Participate in discussion about what is read to them taking turns and listening to what others say.
SMSC: Experiencing nature at first hand, investigating the world around us and comparing environments. Fostering an appreciation of the environment and living things.