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So we come to the end of another Folha Verde term, with this last month having felt particularly full of fun and creativity. The highlight of course was the Time Travel project which gave all the children the wonderful experience of working together with Zoe and Tamzin to create a […]

So it continues to be a strange and slightly surreal time in the world at large, but Folha Verde has felt to us like a a little oasis of productivity, creativity and relative calm (as calm as it can be with 35 children in the same space!). We’ve had a […]

It was a lively and lovely July at Folha Verde, with plenty of interesting and creative activities going on during our open month, when we welcome extra children from the wider community to come and join us for a few weeks. We have continued some of our ongoing projects, with […]

It’s been a long time since we last wrote this blog, but now we’d like to write regularly again to share what we are getting up to at Folha Verde. We’ve just returned here after a long break because of the lockdown period. Everyone was excited to be back and […]

This week we’ve had a new addition to our ever-expanding play park area. Miguel has made us a lovely see-saw – and the children were clamouring to try it out while he was still putting the finishing touches in place. With that and then the following day having five women […]

It’s been another magical week at Folha Verde, with all sorts of weird and wonderful things going on as usual. In ‘Jardim’ children made the most of the sun and created a magical miniature garden with leaves, moss, stones and grass found from around the land. In chestnut they have […]

Well it was a rainy week – and despite children still putting on their wellies and raincoats to play outside sometimes, we definitely had more time inside the building than usual. Of course with 30 children in one building on these rainy days excitement levels can rise, so this week […]

This week was a truly creative week – from magic wand-making and creating paper mâché bowls in Folha Verde Jardim, to making casts of children’s hands to shape them into beautiful bowls and drawing ‘um jardim Portugues’ with different fruit and vegetables labelled in Portuguese, as well as having a creative […]

Undoubtedly the main attraction of this week has been the arrival of a beautifully made balancing game – ‘um jogo de equilibrio’ – hand-crafted by Filipe. The game consists of trying to balance different sized and shaped pieces of wood (all indigenous and locally sourced) on a larger wooden disc […]