Sticky, gooey, oozy, slimy, glorious mud! It is a quintessential childhood ingredient and one that parents either avoid or tolerate!…
Wildlings Forest School began as an idea between myself, Nicki Farrell & Vicci Oliver, fellow mothers, high school teachers and friends. We met at Vicci’s nature playgroup (Little Wildlings on the Sunshine Coast) and quickly found ourselves discussing if and where to send our eldest children to school the following year. Following quite a lot of research, we both decided to delay starting our children in Prep for a year for a variety of reasons (that’s another blog!). Both of us wanted to provide our children with a place they could go regularly to meet friends and play in nature. We had a mutual passion in alternative education and all things nature and both needed to go back to some kind of work after our maternity leave, so our original business idea, a home school co-op, Where the Wildlings Grow, began. We signed on to do the Intro to Forest Schooling with Nature Play QLD in October 2016 and this threw us into a passionate tizz!
Here at Wildlings we’re really grateful that every day is Outdoor Classroom Day. We have nomadic playgroups and Bush/Forest Kindy’s…
There is this hanging vine in a rainforest we visit that bears the shape of a swing. It has been…
Growing up on the West Coast of Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, I was fortunate enough to grow up surrounded by…
Setting up base camp at Forest School is always fun. The forest takes us to another world, one where we…
It’s that time of year when the Mama’s and Papa’s of Wildlings are looking to find gifts that are meaningful, memorable and get their Wildlings outdoors where they belong. We’ve put together a list of gift voucher ideas for local Sunshine Coast experiences to help you make this a memorable Christmas without filling up our local landfill with plastic!
We’ve had a lot of people ask us what we thought of the FSLI Level 3 Forest School Leader course…
What is Forest School? The Forest School movement is growing rapidly here in Australia – but what exactly is a…
I don’t know if you could really say that Winter reached us in this corner of the world this year……