I was sitting in a wooden chair at a table in the school principal's office wondering how it all happened so fast to get me here

This is a recorded chat with my sister Chelsea where we reflect on the role of outdoor play in our lives as children growing up in...

Ever since gathering a group of storytellers together at the start of the global shutdown in 2020 for weekly livestreams, I've been getting

Well, I’m dusting off the ol' Forest Schooled keyboard. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog here. Life moves and sways, shifting...

Okay, you know that feeling when you have an idea and then someday that idea becomes a reality? It's an amazing feeling and one I am so...

“So what do you do about puddles?!” I could sense a slight panic in her voice as she asked me this. And it was a valid question from...

In the Starting a Forest School Program from Scratch series I described the steps I took to get a couple of programmes up and running in...

I took a risk. It was the coldest day we'd had in the school year so far and nobody was quite back in the mindset of playing in cold...

This is a tough one for me to write, but here goes... One of my missions in Forest School and even through writing this blog has been to...

This has been a really exciting time of year for me because it's the first time I've delivered Forest School sessions in the dark! I...

The other day at Forest School a five year old named Ryan approached me with tears in his eyes. He was calm, but also clearly upset. He...

I went to a conference recently that was all about connecting children with nature. Sounds like something that should be right up my...

If you've been following along with me over the past several months, you may have caught my ramblings here and there about how I'm...

Preface: I've called the first post in this series "Part 1", but a friend reminded me that there is so much more that comes before this...

We've had snow on the ground for weeks now, but a few days ago the temperature rose and it rained. This started to melt the snow... but then

If you've been following the Forest Schooled blog for a while, you might be aware that earlier this year I moved from southern England, UK

I find it interesting how our perceptions of what's 'dangerous' are highly influenced by our cultures, in other words, what seems to be the

If I had to take a guess I would say that marshmallows are the number one food 'cooked' over a campfire. It's just so easy! You stuff it on

If you caught the recent Facebook post or Forest Schooled newsletter, you'll have seen I've just started grad school and will be working

“Be careful!” It just comes out, doesn't it? You start to get nervous when you see a kid doing something a little bit risky, maybe...

I was sitting with a girl, about 5 years old, who was whittling a stick of willow with a peeler. Well actually, I think she thought she...

The children created a rope swing this week. The activity was inspired by a jump rope that had been thrown onto a branch and left...

I've been doing a lot of firelighting using fire strikers with groups recently. Perhaps the cold weather makes this activity all the more...

“But I might fall,” she said. I replied, “You're right. That could happen.” She looked at me, a bit puzzled. I don't think that was the...

“I beat your record! I climbed higher than you!” “Okay, I'll have another go! I'll bet I can get even higher!” And up the boys went,...

You know how there's this movement for risk assessments to also evaluate the benefits rather than just the hazards? These 'risk-benefit...

It was number 2 out of 6 for my pilot sessions today! (See My Forest School Fledging for a rundown of what happened during session 1 last...

I was struggling to think of what to write about after the PRU session today because it was actually such a lovely session! So instead of...

Today's session was very different from last week's session (Thank goodness!!). The mud wrestling and associated traumas of the week...

Today's Forest School with the PRU was a session I will probably never forget. This is for both good and also very bad reasons... We had...