Forest School fun!
We are really enjoying our weekly Forest School sessions. This week Lee showed us how to do some Japanese ‘Forest Art’. We had to collect a handful of fresh leaves from the trees…Lee encouraged us to choose leaves of varying shapes and sizes. We were given a piece of material which we folded in half, with a leaf placed in the middle. By hammering the material carefully but firmly we could see the shape of the leaf appear through the material…it took quite a lot of hammering! When we opened the material up the leaves had printed symmetrically. This process was repeated with a variety of leaves.
The next task was to find a stick that measured the same as the width of the material and attach the cloth using tape. Finally we added a length of string before finding a suitable branch to hang them on. They looked fabulous dancing in the breeze!
Mrs Strudwick
