Lighting fires and forest school easter egg hunts...

Weird weather lately - it snowed last night and today it was blissfully sunny. When we arrived at forest school with our friends Matthew and Sarah and their mum Mary there were patches of snow which looked pretty with the sunshine falling onto it...

This was our third session at The Woodland Play center and Acey is getting so much out of it already! Today the children gathered sticks and lit the fire, used a special tool to cut long branches, made mossy bunny ears and noses, went on a magic Easter egg hunt, drank hot chocolate, made chocolate cornflake nest cakes. But Acey's favorite thing was the special bushcraft tool for lighting fires, he spent almost the two hours we were there making sparks with it and developed a real knack! He loved it so much that he decided he wants to save his pocket money for one... if anyone else is interested, you can get them here...

http://www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/bushcraft--survival-fire-lighting-steel---choice-of-sizes-824-p.asp