Even with a whole month passing since our last session the
children were able to talk with confidence about the things in
the wood we needed to be mindful of to keep ourselves safe.
Right from the start the children were mindful of walking around
the fire circle and stuck to this for the majority of the
session despite there being no fire or hot kettle today. As
there was a lot of new growth in the woods, the Last Session
Review was supplanted somewhat by an impromptu forage walk where
the children were shown different plants, some of which were
edible, others protected and others invasive. The children were
interested and smelled the leaves. Had the forage site not been
on a main dog walk, they would have tried some of them. All of
the children had heard the Three Little Pigs story and were
familiar with the role of the wolf as “big and bad”. By using
the Alternative Three Little Pig story, which tells the tale
from the wolfs perspective, it was possible to engage the
children in a shelter building narrative