More slave labour



Another day another wagonful of wood chip marking out the whittling area





Putting up the saw horses begining to feel like home




we need just one more log!




I see no ships




Armed and almost dangerous

It was bitter at forest school today so we moved more wood chip just to keep warm while Helen got the hot chocolate on the way.  She had a sneaky bag of wood shavings with her just to make sure the fire went after being supplied with damp newspaper last term, some people are so untusting!
It's great the way no two groups are the same, yesterday's crew were very laid back and mellow today's were charging around building dens and using different features of the forest school site.  Since we have moved the wet weather shelter the sand/ mud pit has been rediscovered and an old play platform was being used for chilling out on again.
I was handed a Y shaped piece of wood and asked, Do you have any string I want to make a slingshot?  String isn't going to work you need elastic, which I don't have any of but lets have a look in the sparks bag.  After a quick rumage we found some mini rubber bands that we put on either side of the Y and then a piece of string between them slingshot done, well, done after another three were made.  It's amazing how many Y pieces of wood you can find on the floor.
It's great when the children take over and start leading. I said it would be nice to get some seeds and plant up the site with some woodland plants at which one of the boys pipes up and says he wants to grow strawberries and he has the perfect place.  So we marked out the area with some logs and next week he is going to dig it over ready for planting in a couple of weeks once the ground has warmed up a little.