As you may remember, I try to have a vague topic or theme each month, to keep activities fresh and give some direction to exploring. Since we love woodlands, that's what our topic is for June. Here are some of the things that we've been up to or are planning to do:
lie in long grass and look at the sky
forage for food - a bit early for wild raspberries, but Wood Sorrel and cleavers are out there, as well as nettles for soup.
identify wild flowers - Bug chose to buy a wild flower ID book with her holiday spending money, which I think is awesome!
visit woodlands - as well as our local deciduous and conifer woodlands, while we were on holiday we found our way to the Stackpole Estate, to Colby Woodland Gardens and to Lawrenny Quay (all National Trust properties in Pembrokeshire) so we've had a wide variety to explore.
tree and leaf collages with pictures from magazines
read woodland books
make a bird box
make a collection of interesting "finds" from the woods - seed pods, feathers, interesting sticks etc.
wild weaving
sing "Teddy Bear's picnic"
press leaves and flowers
have a picnic in the woods
roll down a hill
make trees from newspaper
introduce woodland words such as names of woodland animals, deciduous, conifer etc.
identify types of tree
string print tree picture - use string dipped in paint to print branches of tree
leaf and pine cone printing - a painting activity for outdoors I think!
play a matching game with pictures of woodland animals and their young
camp out in the garden
make a giant spiderweb in the woods out of string between trees
As you may remember, I try to have a vague topic or theme each month, to keep activities fresh and give some direction to exploring. Since we love woodlands, that's what our topic is for June. Here are some of the things that we've been up to or are planning to do:
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