The Woodland Nursery

Let your child experience learning in a physically, mentally and emotionally healthy way through our Ofsted Outstanding, award winning Forest School Nurseries.

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* Weekly Activities - Special Person Cards & Keyrings *

This week we made special cards and forest school keyrings to celebrate a special person in our lives.

Link to our weekly blog: https://t.co/5vlax3LG3l

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* Weekly Activities - Natural Clay Coasters *

This week we made natural clay coasters using wildflowers and weeds such as dandelions, buttercups and daisies.

Link to our weekly blog: https://t.co/tjHUNeIH5I

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* Weekly Activities - Space and Constellations *

We made our own constellations after watching a video and reading about space, the universe, our solar system and constellations.

Link to our space blog: https://t.co/UOAniTEG3X

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* Weekly Activities - Oshibana *

This week's activity was 'Oshibana'... the art of using pressed flowers and other botanical materials to create an entire picture from these natural elements.

Blog link: https://t.co/Fu8YtkJYD4

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* Weekly Activities - Web Weaving *

The children cut discs of wood & either drilled holes or hammered in small nails. They then wove wool around to make shapes of their choosing.

Link to our web weaving post: https://t.co/ljaefotUuM

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* Weekly Activities - Wooden Mallet *

We made wooden mallets just like Little Rabbit Foo Foo uses in our book of the week...

Link to blog post: https://t.co/Tcbq5bJ7WR

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* Weekly Activities - Land Art *

See what the children made from common things found scattered around the forest floor...

Link to blog post: https://t.co/NWCjyCWnO7

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* Weekly Activities - Hedgehog Home Part 1 *

Hedgehogs are now classed as 'vulnerable to extinction' so we thought we would help by building them a home where they could look after their hoglets.

Link to our blog: https://t.co/eeGYHWjPjb

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Music ignites all areas of child development & skills for school readiness, including intellectual, social-emotional, motor, language, & overall literacy so we decided to make percussion sticks this week...

Link to our musical blog: https://t.co/NAUePqSo1q

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Weekly Activities - Bird Feeders

To help out our feathered friends when food can be difficult to find, we made 3 different types of bird feeders that the children could take home & hang up.

Link to our blog: https://t.co/3G2mzCfDlo

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* Weekly Activity - Christmas Wreaths *

Continuing with our Christmas theme, we made Christmas wreaths that the children could take home and hang up.

Link to our blog: https://t.co/tebgYJe2Hs

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* Weekly Activity - Christmas Decorations *

As Christmas draws ever closer we chose to make a candle decoration that the children could take home.

Read our Christmassy blog to find out more: https://t.co/Z5jmUT8HXx

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* Weekly Activity - Leaf Baskets *

We got messy and sticky this week by making delicate leaf baskets that the children could (carefully!) take home.

Read our messy blog to find out more: https://t.co/OtYw2ac2A4

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We are humbled and honoured to have been awarded Gold for 'Early Years Team of the Year' at the Pearson National Teaching Awards 2023.

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* Weekly Activity - Magic Wands *

This week we made magic wands & used a 'cauldron' to for our group spell... iggety, ziggety, zaggety, ZOOM!

Read our magical blog to find out more: https://t.co/zjvK8JPAOm

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Weekly Activity - Poppies

We talked about bonfire night & Remembrance day & made poppy necklaces. We also made a large poppy-inspired wreath that all the children hand a hand in making 😉

Read our blog for more info: https://t.co/JwX2yU1XYi

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* Weekly Activities - Wind Chimes/Decorations *

Now that the seasons are changing we wanted to embrace the autumn wind by making wind chimes and decorations.

Take a look at our blog for more info: https://t.co/AFqgTzhpp3

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* Weekly Activities - Conker Crafts *

We made the most of the last conkers of the season by creating conker caterpillars, spiders and wreaths.

Take a look at our blog for more info: https://t.co/QH16otOr5W

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