Woodland Garden

We are so fortunate to have our own area of private land where the children can create, explore and play. This weeks trips involved making our paint with herbs and spices and our own paintbrushes using what we could find in the forest around us. This activity engaged our sense of smell, and developed our…

Sunny days are starting to make a regular appearance and we have even enjoyed a handful of warm ones recently. Children have bundles of energy so getting outside is a great way of connecting with nature and releasing all that energy. These photo’s show how much fun the children are having and doing exactly what…

This week the children went on an animal hunt, they took some of their toy animals with them to hide in the wood. Miss Louise used the hot and cold game to help the children to find the animals, some were hidden high up in the tree’s and some low down in the grass and…

Such a lovely evening to have a staff meeting, and no better place than the forest. Sitting there listening to the sounds of the cows and baby lambs in the background while Esther collected the wild garlic for Miss Louise and Elise to fry on the pan with plenty of butter, delicious! It was a…

It’s been a long, cold winter but thankfully spring is finally here. With the changing of the seasons comes longer days, warmer weather, and—thanks to all the activity happening in nature at this time of year- plenty of outdoor learning. This week our cherubs have enjoyed being outdoors exploring. Animals are starting to get active…

Learning to identify and manage risk is such an important part of early education. At Little Cherubs we hope to pass on to all the children the skill of identifying risks for themselves and being able to process and decide on the outcome that lessen the risk. Discussing how deep the river is ? how…

Today’s wonderful wild adventures 💚🌲🌱🌿🌳 Today we ventured a bit further out and investigated the stream, where the children initiated fishing activities with sticks and pots. We also took a closer look at the old wheels and Brooklyn decided it must be part of a monster truck. As the wheels are now rusty we feel…

Today’s Forest Trekkers

Something very exciting and wonderful happened today when our Forest trekkers went exploring. Ever so slightly hidden under a mound of mud (which miss Rianne was digging away) we spotted something old and rusty-We dug it out of the ground. We came up with some rules (getting the children to risk assess-after Rianne and Louise…

At Little Cherubs we follow the Forest school ethos and believe child led play out doors provides the best outcomes for children. Today we had a dilemma, our slide was full of rain water when we arrived! ‘How can we go on the slide now?’ ‘Where did all the water come from?’ ‘The leaves are…

Today’s exciting adventures in the woods with Miss Teagan’s group 🙂 This morning the children explored their new base and we talked about boundaries and the red tape which show areas we can’t cross. We secured the slide to a chopped log which they absolutely loved! There was someone on the slide for the entire…

Here are some photos of the outdoor learning that has been going on over last week and today 🙂 Today we took the children to our piece of land that we will be using to do our outdoor learning. We started the session by taking a walk around the land with the children and getting…

Rianne Corkish – “Productive afternoon making signs for our soon to be registered forest school! I love my job! 😍💚🌲🌱little cherubs nature kindergarten”  

This week our explorers have been creating mud faces. They gathered mud to stick to the trees and found bits and pieces of natural materials to add facial features to their mud. They had such a great time getting muddy and using their imagination for their creations. 🙂 Such a lot was gained from this…

The Great Manx Woodland Bake Off 🙂 Little Cherubs participated in Sport Relief 2016 to raise cash that will help to transform people’s lives across the UK and the world’s poorest communities. To do this little cherubs got creative by making mud pies in a woodland setting using only natural ingredients 🙂 Little Cherubs had…

Little Cherubs Nature Kindergarten are delighted to confirm we have been fortunate in acquiring the use of some private land to continue our outdoor learning and forthcoming Forest School sessions. Today’s session involved exploring their new surroundings, establishing boundaries by carefully placing red tape in areas the children helped identify as unsafe and the associated…