It’s interesting how ‘I don’t want to do that it’s boring’ turns into ‘just a minute I just want to finish this bit’. One of the favoured activity at FS is hide and seek but on a playing field there are not many places to hide so today’s activity was to build some structures to hide behind. We had five to build and so we ended up with randomly chosen groups of three working on each structure. We already had willow, which could be woven onto the structure and then it was a case of finding what you could. One of the boys had the idea of stripping the bark from the logs that line the entrance to the FS to use to build into his structure. Soon we had what appeared to be a gang of beavers working on all the logs, so now we have naked logs and somewhere to hide. I hope we will keep adding to the structures over time but very much like the den design it's up to the kids.
After a drink we set up the slack line, which is a length of webbing strop that goes between two trees and then is pulled tight through a ratchet. Whilst some children were still working on their structures and some playing a game of tag we had a small group balancing along the line.
Its great when we have lots going on and the children can dip in and out of activities and also start to lead on the activities. With the slack line we started off by walking across it then someone decided that they could balance in the middle and then jump up and land back on the line. Once one had had a go then someone else wanted a go and so on. When this happens you just step back and watch the self directed play - great!
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