LIME
Lime were amazed by the size of the leaf pile! They got some brooms and began sweeping up the forest to grow the pile even bigger. There was a little bit of jumping in but then a Boggle egg was found and was used as a nest, to keep it warm in someone’s gloves. Elsewhere, Eat 17 was back (from last week) making and delivering food to people and the stick sharpeners (also from last week) returned to sit scraping bark on a log. They also enjoyed the hammock and some excellent digging zone work was done using water to make mud cement!
WILLOW
Willow were very pleased to have some brooms in the forest and they set to work almost immediately making their own leaf pile, which they planned to turn into a trap! Once the pile was big enough, they loaded it onto a tarp and held it up in the air for some unsuspecting (it was very obvious) passer-by, who (willingly) crouched down to have a rain shower of leaves dumped on them. Elsewhere the mine shaft in the digging zone was opened again and hoards of stones were being collected. The hammock was also still swinging away.
EYFS
Early years were very intrigued to see how the worms were getting on underneath the cover. The stared in wonder and after a while they could see where the worms had wiggled to. They then began sweeping up the leaves and making a big crunchy pile. They took turns jumping in and then restocking the pile by filling buckets and giggling as they were tipped on. The hammock was popular as always and lots of giggling could be heard their too. There was also a very fun game of 1, 2, 3, Where are You, with 10 children squeezing into one space!
BEECH
The worms were just as entertaining for Beech (who probably rehomed a world record of worms last week) and they were very pleased to see the sand in the box had been moved around. They then got to work in the digging zone trying to uncover the giant paving slab. Their theories on what could be underneath had escalated since last week and they thought; it was either covering a huge underground den or a grave…! The leaf pile was swept bigger and bigger too and lots of jumping took place alongside a whole lot of hammock fun!
MAPLE
Maple are still enamoured with the hammock and a selection of children just queued up over and over again for the whole session. They were a bit more adventurous with the leaf pile and used the broom to build it up until it was bigger than ever before and then jumping on it! Some charitable people were going around with buckets asking for leaf donations for Children in Need. They claimed the leaf pile as their money too and kept quoting ‘one leaf can change a child’s life’ as they approached people! A rainforest tribe also waged a mostly friendly war…