We made a lot of different wooden animals and dolls this week. This involved sawing, carving, drilling, painting, and gluing yarn. To celebrate the end of the semester and the solstice we made hot cocoa and snowflake tortillas over the fire. Kids used scissors to cut folded tortillas just like paper snowflakes. Then we unfolded them and toasted them with a little bit of cinnamon/sugar. As we enjoyed these treats, Chris told the solstice story of the Deer Mother, a reindee

This week we roasted pineapple rings and campfire bread over the fire, continued "Ninjas of the Forest", drew story stones and wooden animals, sawed wood for the fire, made rock houses and bridges in the big creek, made a geode store, climbed at Treefort and went to the rocky ravine in Yellowwood, went on an animal track hunt (we found deer and raccoon tracks, and a mystery bone!), and made a giant golf ball painting. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

The kids were really into being "ninjas of the forest" all week. We did a lot of training tasks that they came up with - balancing, climbing, jumping from high places --and a lot of woodcraft as we made swords, spears and bow and arrows for our dramatic play. This week also featured rope games, tending fires, building rock houses, tracking coyote and raccoon prints in the snow, sledding down the big hill, making bird feeders, playing the barrel drum, dancing to our favorit