In the midst of the season of giving, our nature kindergarten class has focused on the needs of others, including the needs of our forest friends. We have made mouse houses, various bird feeders and created winter dens. However, we wanted to end our 2017 with a special gift to nature, so we decorated a tree.
But before we could decorate our tree, we decided to prepare our dens. The class has come up with many new ways to transfer the food to their dens. More recently, to save time, they have been filling up their hats and/or mittens.
They did need some adult help to retrieve berries. They have cleaned out the lower branches.
Of course, as is customary, after we did some work, we enjoyed some unstructured natural play.
Later in the day, it was back to preparing food for our animals. While we made some pretzel garlands in school, many of our families donated their own natural ornaments from home.
We made our newly created garlands and a sample of the homemade decorations and went out to decorate a tree near the trail,
Then, it was back to play time,
In the afternoon, we had family guests joined in on our holiday celebration. Luckily, the adults were able to help us decorate higher branches on our tree.
My family even came to the festivities. Embry can't miss out on a climbing tree.
Our tree ended up looking wonderful, but not as wonderful as the kids who helped decorate it. Happy Holidays everyone!
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