Teach me something and I will teach you something

This week I was shown how to make a double headed daisy by one of the girls.  You take two daisy heads one with a stalk and one without.  The one without you make a hole in the centre of it with a thorn or thin sharp stick.  Through the hole you thread the stalk of the other daisy through so the backs of the two heads touch then you break off the extra stalk you don't need.

In exchange for the double headed daisy I had to show how to make and fire a bow and arrow.  This lead to a number of the group wanting to make bows all very Robin hood.  After setting some ground rules about what to shoot at we managed to get everyone home with their arrows in their hands and not through their ears.

We love making swings at Forest school and have found a variation on this instead of tying the rope off on the tree we use it to hoist the rider up in the tree (about 180cm seat to ground)  This has been going down very well unless your the adult doing the pulling up and down.  We will be investing in a couple of pulleys so the children can start to pull each other up and down as well with the addition of a stopper knot no one will come down to earth will a bump.

We made our first movie today as well a couple of the boys were using the chopping blocks in the whittling area as drums and taking it in turns to dance and sing to their crazy beats.

Finally if you you don't live next to the beach don't worry why not try making wood chip castles.