Forest School Blog - Friday 19th June 2020

Good morning everyone,

Hope you all have had a good week.

Below are some activities you may like to try at home when the weather improves.


Germination experiment

This is a great experiment to try if you want to find out how a seed grows.




Natural hammered leaf printing




You will need:

  • A selection of leaves
  • Kitchen paper
  • Art paper
  • A hammer
  • Chopping board


1. Working on your chopping board, position your leaf on the art paper, covering with 2 sheets of kitchen paper.

2. Start hammering (but mind your fingers)

3. You will know when it is working as the natural pigment from the leaves will start to show through on the kitchen paper.

4. Gently remove the kitchen paper, and peel back the leaf - it should leave a beautiful print on the art paper - some leaves work better than others, experiment, it's fun!


Nature Weaving



1. Collect sticks for your loom.

2. Lash the sticks together with string/wool to create the base of your loom.

3. Make the loom any size or shape you want ... you can maybe make a rectangle or a triangle.

4. Tie a piece of string/wool around one of the corners and begin wrapping it around the loom. Wrapping it around the stick twice will keep the string/wool taught and prevent it from sliding on the sticks.

5. Tie the string/wool off on the corners when you reach the other side of the loom.

6. Time to decorate your loom. Collect interesting grasses, flowers, leaves, seed pods and pieces of bark that you find on the ground.


7. Weave your treasures through the strings of the loom.

Have a lovely weekend and have fun with these activities.

Mrs Cherry and Mrs Turland


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