Fagley Primary Forest School: From wool and string come amazing things

With the dramatic change in the weather over the past week has come a change in pace at Forest School. The warmer weather has enabled us to move away from physically strenuous activities aimed at getting out hearts pumping and keeping us warm and towards more focused tasks that require fine motor control.

The children have been looking a ways of using wool and string in lots of interesting ways from creating webs, nets and obstacle courses and fairy castles to braid and french knitting friendship bracelets.

How to make a nordic slinging braid

Select four lengths of wool
Loop them round a branch and knot them together
Tie a stick to the bottom end of each length of wool
Working with a partner, stand opposite each other holding one of the sticks in each hand
Throw the stick in your left hand towards your partner and they do the same towards you
Catch your partner's stick in your left hand as they catch yours
Now repeat with your right hand
Continue until the braid is at the length you require
Snip of the sticks and tie a knot the end of the braid
Cut the wool attached to a branch and trim the tassels to the required length
You can use your braid as a friendship bracelet, bookmark or maybe even hair accessory