We had a wide variety of activities going on this week, but we noticed that what captured the kids' attention the most on any given day...

Monday We discovered bunch of fairy homes near the waterfall and have been adding more throughout the week. It's become a fairy village!...

We made a lot of different wooden animals and dolls this week. This involved sawing, carving, drilling, painting, and gluing yarn. To...

This week we roasted pineapple rings and campfire bread over the fire, continued "Ninjas of the Forest", drew story stones and wooden...

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,...

We used scrap wood, nails and other found objects to create a few different marble runs throughout the week. Lots of problem solving and...

MONDAY We followed the big creek down to a grove of birch trees where we collected the birch bark that we've been using as tinder to...

We've been practicing bushcraft skills all week: sawing and splitting firewood, striking a ferro rod to light fires, and building debris...

Monday - We were so excited to discover that the rain filled our favorite puddles in the creek, after they had been dry for quite awhile....

"It is necessary to be outside for our brains to be stimulated from the flow of sound, light, shapes, and colors that nature provides."...