Tiny Tribe Outdoors

Lovely to see these two together again, and both great little Firestarters 🔥🔥♥️

You know you are a forest schooler when......?

Ruth Hollands - I do remember telling very tech savvy 8 year olds that if they could find the fairy door at the far SW point in the woods past the heart oak, 3 hornbeams and one holly bush, there was a USB port to charge the phone. And no they couldn't Google what a hornbeam was 😆

A new feathered friend visiting this week ...

❤️

All the gang... next time Nuno 😉

Just a lovely afternoon in the woods, the best way to start Christmas.... check out that baked cheese! Banging as Ruth would say 🙃😆♥️

Can't decide whether dusk or dawn is favourite at this time of year

Oh go on then......

A teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The teacher then mixed all the balloons. The students were then given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.

At that point, the teacher told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon.

The teacher said to the students: "These balloons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too."

May your day be filled with happiness. ❤️

To all ye reindeers, bon courage...

Made me smile 🤭

'Yes boys,:you do have to eat the vegetables!' It turns out there is power in all the vegetables......

Oh the hearts and colours are everywhere people .....

Wonderful to work with the Rough Common Preschool gang on our Empowering the Outdoor Practitioner training yesterday. A total treat to see this lovely team come together having fun in the autumn sunshine......

A little day playing in the Autumn sunshine......

My favourite office ......

A couple of days hanging out, you guessed it, in Nature

When you spend your time with photographers, this can happen! Wow! Oh and, he's 7yrs old. A fantastic shot on a beautiful day in the woods today ....

Am feeling all hedgehoggy, is it even a word?

Coco salt dough hedgehogs:

We had lots of fun making these little hedgehogs. We glued magnets to the back so that they would work as fridge magnets!

To make salt dough you will need:

2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of salt
3/4 cup (roughly) warm water
cooking oil
Cocoa power
Food colouring
Small twigs for the spikes

Method:

Mix the flour and salt in a large bowl. If you want to make different colours, separate your mixture into two or three smaller bowls in equal parts.

Add a spoonful of cocoa powder to one mixture to make the brown dough.

Add a drizzle of cooking oil to each bowl.

Divide your warm water into two or three cups and add food colouring to the ones that you want to turn green or orange.

Add the water gradually, working one bowl at a time, and using hands to bring the dough together until it feels like play dough. If it’s sticky add flour, if it’s dry add water.

Make your models, push in your twigs, get creative! You can use paper clips to make hooks to hang your work.

Leave your dough somewhere warm to air dry (if it has twigs in it) I put ours on trays in top of the wood burner. (They were done in two hours.)

It can take a few days to air dry.

If you have no twigs in your work, cook on a very low heat in the oven for an hour or so. Keep checking your models.

When they are dry you can add paint, or varnish them. We use PVA glue. Varnishing them makes your models last much longer.

Have fun! Don’t forget to tag us in photos of your creations!