Ice, Ice baby!!!

Next to our playground is a skate park know locally as 'the humps and bumps'.  The following day after we had the bon- fire children were playing over at the park.  'Arrh come and look...' screamed some of the children. As we ran over to the humps a small group of children had discovered a rather large frozen puddle. As they walked and skidded across you could hear the ice cracking under foot and air bubbles popping. 'Lets smash it!', 'what a brilliant idea'...We ran back to our play hut collected up a number of small hammers and shovels and made our way back...

It wasn't long before we were joined by other children and soon after some patience the top layer was broken up. The children continued to play in this area for the rest of the evening. Some adventureous children challenegd each other to stand in the cold water, 'yieks' freeezing!

Disco Inferno

As the cold weather descended on us the children at the playground helped to build a large bonfire down in our fire-pit. Around the fire we placed tea light lanterns, cooked marshmallows, drank tea & hot chocolate and I'm sure a couple of packets of biscuits where shared out too! 

At the same time some of the younger boys discovered a huge block of ice that had formed in our very small pond. They broke up the block and brought it to the fire. It didn't last long before all the blocks were throw into the fire and watched as they slowly melted,  
almost putting out the 
fire we built!