A day at Ringsfield Hall

Today at Ringsfield Hall we first tried to ignite a fire, then we made dens and next we did some sketching. Finally we did some ‘whittling’.

Fire lighting

First we teased some cotton wool (ha ha…you silly cotton wool, you!) to start the fire going then we collected a range of different sized twigs to keep the fire alight, next we put some of the twigs that we collected on the cotton wool and left a small space for the sparks to ignite the cotton wool, finally we used flint and steel to create a spark

 Making Den’s

First we gathered some really big sticks from pine trees to make the structure of the den then we got lots of branches with leaves on them to keep the rain from coming through the roof. Steve poured water on the den to see if it was able  to keep it from coming into the den (most of us got wet).

Sketching

After lunch we did 3 sketches 1 of a plant, 1 of a building and 1 of an animal.(we had to do them in our sketching book’s)

Whittling

Also we did whittling to make a sharp stick to toast marshmallows in the fire on the last day. First we had to shave all the bark of then make one end pointy and finally we had free time. So that’s the end of a exciting and enjoyable day at Ringsfield Hall!!!

Hope you aren’t missing us too much!!!

By JAVI and RUARI