We are starting to think about how we are going to build our wood store, so today’s session we were experimenting with hazel rods and see what structures we could build. We had a full house and with new names to learn and forest school rules to pass on. We started on the logs around the fire pit. Stick collecting followed a very rowdy animal name game and after the high winds of last week there is a bounty of firewood.
I demonstrated with the aid of a volunteer square lashing which is away of joining to sticks together at right angles (I thing this may be very important when we build the floor of the wood store. We then looked at the safe use of secateurs a tool that is very useful when shortening hazel rods.
Once we had divided everyone into three groups with a good mix of ages in each it was on to tower building with the hazel. With as little instruction as possible the groups each tackled the challenge differently with a lot of concentration going on.
We have left the structures up until next week when we will reuse the rods as we start to plan the building of the wood store.
Good luck to the Frys as they move to the southeast and we hope they enjoyed their time at Forest School.
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