Saplings is a new group for four- and five-year olds on Friday afternoons held at the Bluebell Wood, Bates Green Farm, Arlington.
It's for home-educated, flexi-school, or older pre-school children and their carers.
This is a step up from Acorn Folk or Bluebell Club, still using the wildlife theme and woodland setting but with more of a focus on fine motor skills, team games, colouring and mark making, stories and sound, counting, using our voices.
Friday afternoons, dates below, 12.45-2.15pm, £8.50 per session, including hot and cold drinks.
To book, please email [email protected] or call or text Sarah on 07887 556336
It's for home-educated, flexi-school, or older pre-school children and their carers.
This is a step up from Acorn Folk or Bluebell Club, still using the wildlife theme and woodland setting but with more of a focus on fine motor skills, team games, colouring and mark making, stories and sound, counting, using our voices.
Friday afternoons, dates below, 12.45-2.15pm, £8.50 per session, including hot and cold drinks.
To book, please email [email protected] or call or text Sarah on 07887 556336
January 9th GRUFFALO SNOW
The Gruffalo's child has found lots of tracks - can you match them to the correct animal?
Make some of your own tracks in the wood. Learn to make paper and leaf snowflakes. What rhymes with snow?
January 23rd MUSICAL WOODS
Make a woodland shaker to learn some rhythms and blow different notes on the bottle tree. Bring a favourite nursery rhyme
to teach to everyone! What animal songs do we know?
February 6th AWESOME OWLS
Which owls live in this country? Can you listen with owl ears for a while? Can you catch a mouse?
Decorate your own owl to take home.
February 27th STREAMS AND RIVERS
Pop your wellies on to walk down the stream - can you build a little boat to float? Can it carry a toy mouse?
Where do the streams go? Merrily merrily!
March 13th TRACKS AND TRAILS
Follow the trail through the woods and make your own trail for your grown up to follow.
Do you remember who makes these footprints? Work together to build the longest train track!
March 27th RABBITS AND HARES
Find all the rabbits and act out a little Peter Rabbit story. Draw and glue a rabbit to take home. Can you find where they live?
Play rabbit snap!
April 17th BOG BABY
Bog Baby is a special story about looking after tiny creatures and letting them live in the best place. Let's look for some tiny
creatures! It takes place in a bluebell wood, so we will also be painting a bluebell picture.
May 1st WOODLAND COLOURS
Can you match all of Elmer the Elephant's colours to something you can find in the woods?
Let's have a go at mixing paint colours. You know red, yellow, green, but how about maroon, turquoise and mauve?
May 15th HUNGRY CATERPILLARS
Let's search on the leaves for hungry caterpillars and other minibeasts. Can you give them names? We will use our bodies to
make the shapes of caterpillars, cocoons and butterflies. Learn the names of five butterflies!
June 5th COUNTING CREATURES
Using all the toys, we will play with numbers, adding, taking away. Can you count to twenty? Can you write your age?
With the beautiful Julian Donaldson book, we will look for wild animals too.
June 19th FROGS AND NEWTS
Let's investigate the pond, dip for frogs and newts. What makes them different? What things are the same?
We will try some leap frog games.
July 10th MICE ARE NICE
Is a mouse in it's house? Can the bird be heard? Is a frog on a log? Rhyming and small world play.
The Gruffalo's child has found lots of tracks - can you match them to the correct animal?
Make some of your own tracks in the wood. Learn to make paper and leaf snowflakes. What rhymes with snow?
January 23rd MUSICAL WOODS
Make a woodland shaker to learn some rhythms and blow different notes on the bottle tree. Bring a favourite nursery rhyme
to teach to everyone! What animal songs do we know?
February 6th AWESOME OWLS
Which owls live in this country? Can you listen with owl ears for a while? Can you catch a mouse?
Decorate your own owl to take home.
February 27th STREAMS AND RIVERS
Pop your wellies on to walk down the stream - can you build a little boat to float? Can it carry a toy mouse?
Where do the streams go? Merrily merrily!
March 13th TRACKS AND TRAILS
Follow the trail through the woods and make your own trail for your grown up to follow.
Do you remember who makes these footprints? Work together to build the longest train track!
March 27th RABBITS AND HARES
Find all the rabbits and act out a little Peter Rabbit story. Draw and glue a rabbit to take home. Can you find where they live?
Play rabbit snap!
April 17th BOG BABY
Bog Baby is a special story about looking after tiny creatures and letting them live in the best place. Let's look for some tiny
creatures! It takes place in a bluebell wood, so we will also be painting a bluebell picture.
May 1st WOODLAND COLOURS
Can you match all of Elmer the Elephant's colours to something you can find in the woods?
Let's have a go at mixing paint colours. You know red, yellow, green, but how about maroon, turquoise and mauve?
May 15th HUNGRY CATERPILLARS
Let's search on the leaves for hungry caterpillars and other minibeasts. Can you give them names? We will use our bodies to
make the shapes of caterpillars, cocoons and butterflies. Learn the names of five butterflies!
June 5th COUNTING CREATURES
Using all the toys, we will play with numbers, adding, taking away. Can you count to twenty? Can you write your age?
With the beautiful Julian Donaldson book, we will look for wild animals too.
June 19th FROGS AND NEWTS
Let's investigate the pond, dip for frogs and newts. What makes them different? What things are the same?
We will try some leap frog games.
July 10th MICE ARE NICE
Is a mouse in it's house? Can the bird be heard? Is a frog on a log? Rhyming and small world play.
[email protected] 07887 556336