Turn your backyard into your own outdoor school with this seasonal guide to nature-based learning and play!
Features even more fun games, skill-building activities, and nature crafts for kids, so you can get your young ones outside—come rain, shine, or snow.
The Forest School ethos of nature-based play and learning encourages children to develop confidence, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence. Building on the success of the bestselling Play the Forest School Way, here is a brilliant selection of brand-new games, crafts, and activities that will help kids develop life skills and explore the natural world all year round. Structured around the 4 seasons, each chapter is full of step-by-step games and activities that harmonize with the weather and seasonal nature patterns, including nods to seasonal festivals such as Easter and Christmas. Activities include:
• Spring: Nettle Soup; Wood-cookie-Man; Earth Day Birthday Cake; Dandelion and Lime Tea • Summer: Bark Masks; Blackberry Ink and Feather Quill Pens; Nature Watch; Animal Tag • Autumn: Evergreen Paintbrush; Baked Apples; Den Building; Leaf Stitching • Winter: Elf Carving; Compass Treasure Hunt; Charcoal Pencils; Animal Track Casts
At Forest School, children return to the same location again and again, building a lasting connection with a specific part of the natural world. Each of the four seasonal chapters in A Year of Forest School includes a description of an extended session (combining active and quieter activities, plus an idea for foraging/cooking), capturing this key part of Forest School play and providing inspiration for parties, themed learning days, and outdoor adventures.
Jane Worroll is a qualified Level 3 Forest School leader, running, with Peter Houghton, year-round Forest School sessions for children in London and elsewhere. She has worked outside for the majority of her adult life, in gardening, tree surgery and, for 12 years, as a Countryside Ranger, a role that included habitat management, monitoring protected species and leading volunteers. She has a degree in ecology as well as an MSc in environmental conservation.
Peter Houghton is also a qualified Level 3 Forest School leader. At a charity supporting vulnerable inner-city children and young people, he worked as an artist (in woodwork and other media) and as a key worker, as well as leading Forest School sessions. He is qualified and experienced in historical and ornamental woodcarving and in green woodwork.
Turn your backyard into your own outdoor school with this seasonal guide to nature-based learning and play!
Features even more fun games, skill-building activities, and nature crafts for kids, so you can get your young ones outside—come rain, shine, or snow.
The Forest School ethos of nature-based play and learning encourages children to develop confidence, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence. Building on the success of the bestselling Play the Forest School Way, here is a brilliant selection of brand-new games, crafts, and activities that will help kids develop life skills and explore the natural world all year round. Structured around the 4 seasons, each chapter is full of step-by-step games and activities that harmonize with the weather and seasonal nature patterns, including nods to seasonal festivals such as Easter and Christmas. Activities include:
• Spring: Nettle Soup; Wood-cookie-Man; Earth Day Birthday Cake; Dandelion and Lime Tea • Summer: Bark Masks; Blackberry Ink and Feather Quill Pens; Nature Watch; Animal Tag • Autumn: Evergreen Paintbrush; Baked Apples; Den Building; Leaf Stitching • Winter: Elf Carving; Compass Treasure Hunt; Charcoal Pencils; Animal Track Casts
At Forest School, children return to the same location again and again, building a lasting connection with a specific part of the natural world. Each of the four seasonal chapters in A Year of Forest School includes a description of an extended session (combining active and quieter activities, plus an idea for foraging/cooking), capturing this key part of Forest School play and providing inspiration for parties, themed learning days, and outdoor adventures.
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Jane Worroll is a qualified Level 3 Forest School leader, running, with Peter Houghton, year-round Forest School sessions for children in London and elsewhere. She has worked outside for the majority of her adult life, in gardening, tree surgery and, for 12 years, as a Countryside Ranger, a role that included habitat management, monitoring protected species and leading volunteers. She has a degree in ecology as well as an MSc in environmental conservation.
Peter Houghton is also a qualified Level 3 Forest School leader. At a charity supporting vulnerable inner-city children and young people, he worked as an artist (in woodwork and other media) and as a key worker, as well as leading Forest School sessions. He is qualified and experienced in historical and ornamental woodcarving and in green woodwork.
