PORTOBELLO IN JULY

Today we went on a scavenger hunt and we collected some interesting things in the park. We then made a picture on the ground and played with clay.

 We also saw lots of signets

YELLOWCRAIGS AUGUST SESSION

 

Today we made a large compass and Kate showed us how this was done on the forest floor.

 

We also made twizzlers and carried on with den making.

THREE SESSION IN JULY AT YELLOWCRAIGS

Summer forest school at yellowcraig woods, We had scavenger hunts, did some Happa zoming, put up ropes and climbed trees.

 We found snails and made pictures out of our scavenged finds. We built dens and made doors and boats. Many thanks to Jess and Sarah for their help.

 Our Happa Zoming made some lovely designs especially when we chose some ferns to print with.

Some of us made kazoos and others made puppets. We learnt to drill holes using a hand drill and we learnt how to use a mallet, a saw, and how to split wood.

We played a game of Jenga using the sticks in the woods and we whittled our sticks to make them smooth for our marshmallows.

Yellowcraig forest/beach day July

Today we were kindly helped by Jess who runs her own forest school in Edinburgh. We learnt about limpets moving back to their original position when you move them and about calcified casts left by a type of worm.

We made mermaids with seaweed hair and white nails and castles with lots of moats. Fantastic weather today.

Friday forest school July at Lochend woods Dunbar

We made a fire and some bows and arrows using locally sourced wood. We stripped and peeled our wood and whittled a point so we could also roast some marshmallows.

The woods were lovely today and the weather fantastic.

 

We learnt how to whittle the correct way first using a potato peeler and working with a knife.

 

 

Dunbar Woods for over 6.

Den building and looking at all the lichen. We discovered different plants like knit bone and wondered about their names. We found dock leaves for our stings and collected colours for our cards.

 We found butterflies circling one another in a type of dance and looked at the monkey puzzle tree.Some of us wanted to whittle and others wanted to climb trees.

Yellowcraigs - Den Building 

Den building in the woods. 

Two bedrooms were made and two hours were used to make it.

They made a carpet and seats for the livingroom and a whole bed for one of the bedrooms. 

They worked together as a team and organised themselves

without any adult intervention.

 

Portobello family and over 6 years forest school

Threading our necklaces

Making our rainbow cards

Picking some chives and looking at nests in the water.

 Playing on the ropes, making bread, looking at different birds on the water and picking wildflowers.