Something that’s been in my mind for a while, and today we finally got around to making our own kaleidoscopes from scratch. They seemed...

We’re using special waxed paper to carefully cut out designs that will overlap and create gorgeous colours when the light is behind them....

Our young people were learning the safe use of tools this afternoon- in fact, they were using shears to clear nettle. They made the...

Lovely weather, and we’re still marvelling that it’s light until the end of our session! New energy for creating different sorts of dens,...

We’re making the most of the spring flowers, by preserving them to make chains of natural sun catchers. Using our wire-twisting skills...

Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...

Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...

Forest school was chillier than the last week has been, but the celandines and wood anemones are out, along with wild garlic. The...

‘What would you like to do first?’ ’Painting!’ Our small group this week were very keen to get out the watercolours! They then made a...

We were using the photography process of cyanotype print making today, which creates ‘blueprint’ images. I had already made the cyanotype...

We’re really loving the longer evenings- hard to think that we needed the greenhouse lights on until quite recently. We used some...

We had a visit from a group of students from Derby university, who were interested in alternative settings for education. We used bowsaws...

What a change in the weather- we hope it lasts for a while! Definitely time for outdoors reading and painting, and we did a few gardening...

Forest school sessions haven’t been able to happen much this year, due to the weather! So many storms and high winds- but luckily,...

Our volunteer session was very productive- we took a load of thornless gooseberry cutting. Hopefully, if they take, we will have plenty...

We had plenty of work to do in this week’s after school session -which is how we like it, as it’s pretty cold after the sun has gone...

We had a huge pile of bark chippings to move at the allotment, which we were very glad of as it kept us warm!

It was a lovely bright, mild winters day, perfect for our first gathering after Christmas! The streams were high and fast, and sounded...

We had a huge pan of pumpkin soup (using a monster pumpkin given to us from one of the Crow Wood allotment neighbours!), plus hot mulled...

A bit of a chilly day in the woods, and we took the lightweight fire bowl, plus a rucksack with all our essentials, for an adventure walk...