🧺 A Feather’s Forest News special from deep in the woods
📆 Saturday 21st June | 🕓 3:41 AM
✍️ Written by Feather the Robin
🌄 When the birds sang the sun awake…
Before even the first golden ray touched the ancient stones of Stonehenge, the birds began.
Chirping softly at first, their dawn chorus rose with the sun — a song so old it echoed through the ages. From misty hills to sleepy rooftops, across cities and fields and hedgerows, the song flew.
And when it reached the trees above our woodland glade… we knew.
☀️ It’s Solstice.
Time for the picnic.
🌿 A Forest Wakes
By the time the sun peeked above the tree line, our picnic was well underway.
I, Feather the Robin, arrived early with my camera and notebook (never one to miss a headline).
Wilee, the cheerful cocker spaniel pup, gobbled a carrot cake crumb before anyone could stop him.
Andrew the Pen Maker, who lives in a cosy workshop deep in the woods, poured nettle tea from a wooden flask and handed out honey-dipped berries with a smile.
Fergus the Fox, full of imagination, tried to convince us that fairies invented flapjacks. Typical.
Barney the Badger hummed a soft tune from his collection of forest lullabies.
Bunny the Rabbit bounced over with her half-finished burrow map — she’s learning that sometimes slowing down helps you finish what you start.
Doh the Deer, our gentle dreamer, simply smiled and began sketching the sunrise in the dew.
It was a calm, joyful start to the longest day of the year.
✨ Why the Solstice Picnic Matters
Our stories — twelve in the series — from Pip’s Letter to Granny to Bunny and the Burrow Map — are more than woodland tales.
They’re crafted for growing minds aged 3 to 7, and moments like this are quietly powerful:
- 🧠 Literacy & Language
Solstice is a new word, a curious shape in the mouth. Our readers discover the joy of naming the world and sharing what they find. - 🫶 Social-Emotional Learning
Taking time together helps children reflect, connect, and wonder — just like our characters do in each gentle tale. - 🌍 Nature-Based Curiosity
Our picnic ties in with the rhythm of the seasons, ideal for Forest School learning or home-based circle time. - 📚 Cross-Curricular Potential
Pair our stories with weather charts, simple astronomy, sunrise paintings, or map-making — just like Bunny does with her underground trails. The possibilities are endless.
🌞 Try This With Your Little Ones
Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, or just a curious grown-up — you can have your own Solstice Picnic!
🧺 Set up a small picnic, inside or out.
🎨 Ask: What would you bring? Who would you invite?
🖋️ Draw it. Write about it. Or simply imagine.
Let the magic unfold quietly — just like the sunrise.
🎶 Watch & Listen
We’ve created a simple animated Solstice Picnic video on YouTube — a calming moment with bird song, morning light, and familiar woodland friends.
📺 Watch it here » (Link will go live soon)
🎧 Listen closely…
We encourage you — just for a moment — to pause and truly listen.
To the birds in your garden.
To the ones you pass on your walk.
To the ones who sang the sun awake this morning.
They’ve been singing for thousands of years.
And today… they’re singing for you.
💛
With forest love,
Feather 🪶
Editor-in-Beak, Forest News HQ
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