Another vlog summing up this week!!
A busy one again,
Log chopping,
Fencing,
Building some Forest school/outdoor learning bits
Aaaaannnnnnd Puppy!!!!
Tag: forest school
Goodbye 2018… hello 2019
Building play areas!
So in order to get anything done with Mr Whirlwind around he has to have things to occupy him!!! So gradually using and repurposing things around the farm and planting and making etc I am building a play area…. or lots of bits of play area
Inadvertently with some of the digger work that has been done we have created areas he enjoys playing in already… like the one wet muddy ditch!!!
Anyway what we’ve managed so far!!
A water play wall…
Car ramps and the dry ditch!!
We’ve made space for some outdoors toys…. started planting willow to make some structures….
A teepee, a tunnel etc etc…. maybe eventually a maze given time after seeing the small maze at the Welsh Wildlife centre! They will all be made from a range of basketry willows so hopefully will all provide an additional crop for the farm for an income eventually or raw materials for me to make things with!!
And the tractor tyres we acquired are positioned… now I just need to fill them and make some mini play zones!! For example a dinosaur swamp…. a digger/construction site… the possibilities are endless for the small world play!!
I have so many more ideas and I have created a Pinterest board or two of ideas which I plan to use about the place…. some close to the vegetable and fruit gardens some near to the flower gardens and orchard and some maybe for the wetter areas!! I plan to try to have something at all points to occupy and entertain and inspire the boys to explore, play and create!!
Here’s the links to the Pinterest boards if you want to look!!
Botanical garden trips
Each Wednesday we trot off to the botanical garden for Welly Wednesday!!!
Each week there is a different theme and each week little man really enjoys himself!!
He gets muddy…. he gets soaked…. he has fun… he gets worn out!!!
Here are some of our adventures!! Enjoy!!
The woodland part one!
James and I decided that the other weekend was a good time to start surveying the woodland. So we togged up and off we went with paper, books and camera in hand!!!
We went into the woodland from the furthest corner of big field….
And we worked our way down through the woodland a way noting hazel, and oak trees and an occasional ash. We need to sort out our boundary line in the woodland as the old banked hedged section has fallen into disrepair and there is evidence that sheep have been going back and forth between us and our neighbour.
We have some strangely knarled trees…
The second one looks like there is an old face in the nook!
And we have a lot of holes in the bank!!
Bunnies?
We have a glade area almost here which might service brilliantly as a forest school area for the the fire circle etc!!
There were some lovely fungi and some celandines and other ground flora starting to poke through too.
We mapped out this section of woodland carefully and then decided to slither and slide our way down to the stream which is our bottom boundary.
Tyddyn Bryn 