Forest Storyplay with our Bridgeton Hub!
The Children's Wood - Glasgow
Our cheery Bridgeton hub had a blooming good time at The Children’s Wood. They arrived nice and early and there were many smiles and hugs because we were all together again!
Sarah taught us The Children’s Wood Rhyme and Andre helped us all to make ourselves as Big AS A Bear to warm up. We flew high above the Wood in our Flying Ballo0ns and then we met exquisite creatures with the Funky Chicken – crocodiles, sharks, a happy cat, a naughty elephant, even a Dancing Cricket!
Dressing up was inspiring and inspired – our Bridgeton pals are particularly skilled at using old clothes to turn themselves into the most fabulous characters. They imagined the most colourful animals and creatures that lived in this Forest – a crocodile and a princess cat unicorn, a tiger, a flamingo, a flying squirrel, a giraffe, a chicken and a baby mouse! Did you know that in this forest only one animal has a watch? And when the forest creatures need to know the time there’s no other option but to ask, ‘What’s The Time Mr. Wolf’?
We had Wolfie Rasha who lived in the same tunnel she found her watch in & Wolfie Maab who live in a tree and found her watch in the sky!
Wolfie Emilia had a purple watch that matched her purple house!
Wolfie Alan found his golden watch in an abandoned building!
Wolfie Abackar had a green watch and at 2 o’clock Wolfie Mariam made all the creatures dance!
Being forest animals and wolves does make one rather hungry, so we had a delicious picnic sitting in the meadow. After that Andrea from The Children’s Wood got us all in a lovely circle to show us how to start a fire and how to cook bread in it!
We learnt how to use flints that create sparks to start the fire, and we learnt how to wrap some bread dough over a stick to cook yummy Stick Bread!
All our Bridgeton pals were exceptional at all these new things, and they were even better at melting marshmallows on a stick over the fire!
There was time for some running around, climbing, jumping and swinging too and although it was a bit cloudy the rain stayed away all day. Maybe that’s because on their way from Bridgeton to the Children’s Wood we had all sung –
Rain, rain go away,
Come again another day!”
It was a beautiful day with beautiful friends in a beautiful green space in Glasgow. Aren’t we lucky?!
Taz, Andre, Sarah, Taiwo & our Govan & Online friends
