Join us for some fun in the wild!
Triangle Garden Family Forest School is for families with children aged 3-12 to get outdoors, have fun, learn new skills, and make new friends. Playing outdoors the Forest School way builds confidence, allows risk taking and encourages team building skills. Spending time in nature reduces stress, improves mental well-being, improves boosts immune functions, increases creativity and leaves you feeling refreshed!
All sessions are lead by a qualified Forest School leader in collaboration with Culturewood CiC
Activities will vary with the seasons and are likely to include seek and find nature trails, traditional green crafting, bushcraft, nature observation and making ephemeral art from natural materials. For session times and rates please visit our events page.
Each month will be different, mindful, inspiring and fun for little ones and adults alike.
Here’s some of the feedback we’ve had from previous sessions:
‘Good to be outside doing something different with nature’
‘Refreshed and energised after being outside in nature’
‘Felt great being outside with people and seeing everything coming together’
‘Felt satisfied and envigorated’
‘Good to be outside making the most of nature’
‘I love the outdoors and the children are getting to enjoy it too’
‘Relaxed and outdoorsy!’
‘I just love that they are outside and learning new skills. It’s helping my child’s confidence grow and I’ve noticed he is now less shy trying new activities’
‘Relaxed, happy, grounded’
New skills we learn at Family Forest School:
‘whittling with a potato peeler’, ‘twig crafts’, ‘making a bug hotel’, ‘learnt about bats and water voles’, ‘making a broomstick’, ‘making a wand’, ‘toasting marshmallows on a campfire’, ‘having fun in the mud kitchen’, ‘making stick dollies’, making a fire’, ‘making clay tree sprites’, ‘making mandalas from found materials’, ‘hammer printing’, ‘a better understanding of natural processes eg changing seasons, importance of water, pollinators, flowers etc’, ‘improved my imagination with crafts’, ‘the wide possibilities of creations from forest materials’
