We made our own junk models and learnt about different ways to attach items to boxes etc.

We read the story of Lucy and Tom’s Christmas and were inspired to make our own Christmas cakes using a traditional recipe. We followed Mrs Noden’s Grandmother’s cake recipe and worked in teams to do different jobs, grating orange zest, measuring the dry ingredients, cracking eggs, creaming the butter and sugar together and chopping cherries. We all had a go at mixing the

cake 8 times and making a Christmas wish as we mixed. We spooned the mixture into bean cans and Mrs Noden took them home to bake. The next day we put marzipan and icing on the top and wrote a gift tag for the cakes so we could give them to a loved one.

For our final Forest Schools session of the year we were sent a bag of items to help us make our own Christmas decorations for the tree, we drilled holes in wooden disks and then used paint to make a thumb print snowman.