Well we just missed the rain mainly due to some slow getting ready to go out today. Once out we had two big bags of wood collected for a campfire event on Saturday to put away in the wood store (hoping there will be wood left over for us). The group start off working individually but as they got into the task they started to develop ways of working together by passing the wood along a line from bag to store. Helen managed to get some dry wood from the store before the new damp stuff went in so there was a fire and hot chocolate later in the session.
We continued on the wet weather den adding sides and log seat and an area where we can boil the storm kettle. It is beginning to look quite snug we do need to add a few more pieces of tarp to make it really watertight. The group are thinking of ways to decorate the inside so this will probably become a wet session project.
We have two play dens on the go at the moment one being built by manly year twos and is free standing made from fallen branches. The other is being built by manly year threes in the group and is in the hedge. It is really quite interesting to see how the two dens differ, the hedge den has a swept floor and furniture and has a real narrative about it and the game is about how they use the den. The free standing den is all about the construction and how it fits together and the play seems to be in the building.
Along with the den building some of the children are making drums loosely based on Sami shallow drums. Instead of birch wood steamed and bent into a circle the children harvested willow and wove it into rings. Next week the will stretch fabric over the rings and sew it into place and then decorate them. We may turn our hands to making some shakers too.
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