December is the perfect month for making seasonal crafts to decorate our homes.

We learnt how to use different varieties of Willow to weave stars, and create a circular base for our Wreaths…

To make these lovely tree decorations we built upon our tool-use skills, trying out different types of hand drill, and safe use of saws…

Practising their skills from the tree decoration activity, some children also made their own wood cookies pendants and leaf presses…

Winter is also the perfect season to practise safe fire use: we’ve learnt about the ‘fire triangle’, methods of fire-lighting, fire-building for heat and cooking, and ways to put a fire out.

We experimented with different fire structures, such as the ‘waffle’ below…

Needless to say, we ended the last session in December with an indulgent feast of baked bananas stuffed with chocolate buttons and mini marshmellows 🙂

What a great 2014…here’s to 2015!