Oct 28 2010
Halloween Forest School Campfire at Whitecraig Primary School
The nursery Forest School children enjoyed an extra special Halloween campfire with their Whitecraig Forest School nursery friends today at Whitecraig Primary School. Ms Laing came too as our special Forest School visitor!
The children enjoyed exploring the Whitecraig playing fields, using their detective skills to find special Halloween Bats that were hidden!
They also collected firewood and helped to build a campfire! Once the fire was lit they toasted marshmallows and sang campfire songs.
Some of the children helped Mrs Stephen, our Forest School parent volunteer, to carve our Forest School Halloween pumpkin. When it was finished Miss Lendrum put a small lit candle inside it so the lantern face glowed beside the fire.
For snack the children enjoyed delicious tomato soup and crusty bread…we would like to extend an enormous thank you to Whitecraig Primary School for being such fantastic hosts, all of the children had a brilliant morning.
At the end of our special Halloween Forest School, one of the children found Sammy our squirrel holding the magic tree bag and guess what…..it was full of Halloween goodies for the children to take home and enjoy with their family and friends!!!
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I loved my visit to the Nursery Forest School. The fire was very exciting and warmed us up nicely. The staff from Whitecraig and Campie are so well organised for the Forest School experiences the children are enjoying. I was VERY IMPRESSED. Thank you for the tomato soup. I especially appreciated it because I had just sent 2 tins of Heinz tomato soup to my daughter in CDC school on the Thai Burma border. She really misses Heinz tomato soup. Ms Laing
Hi Gillian / Isla
I enjoyed watching your video – it looked and sounded quite windy – hope it wasn’t too chilly for the grown ups. A nice thing about woodland is that it dampens wind and so protects you when there is a chilly wind blowing. It will be a few years yet before the little trees at Whitecraig grow enough to dampen the wind.
The trees protected in the green tubes are Sweet Chestnut and Aspen so they should grow by a couple of feet each year. Aspen leaves are beautiful in a breeze – the way they are attached to the stem means the leaves make a pleasant flutering sound and show both sides of the leaf so they seem to glimmer
Steven