Bluebells Parent & Child Groups

12/01/2026

🍎Come and make a small Waldorf doll
Last chance for a space starting tomorrow, 16th Jan, Tuesdays 10 to 12pm for our 5 week half-term till 13th Feb. £80. £16/session. Fridays FULL.
🌳At The Rookery Gardens, SW16 3HR
Our usual Waldorf puppet stories, wholesome food, outdoor nature play, seasonal song and craft circle (doll making this term).
🌈 Or come and draw, play alongside
All materials provided and we'll use the SCCOOP community room to be warm and cosy for craft.
https://www.happity.co.uk/bluebells-parent-child
🪻Contact Jo Pearce (Dip Holistic Baby Childcare) to BOOK or WAITING LIST or ENQUIRIES. jo.bluebells@mail.com or WA 07949 240638

07/01/2026

*FRIDAY GROUP*HAPPY NEW YEAR*
Bluebells is happy to be back with our first Friday group 10 to 12pm at the award winning Rookery Gardens. SCCOOP (Streatham Common Cooperative), are kindly enabling a Friday group with use of the entrance via The Inkspot Brewery for when we are crafting in the community room, which will be warmed up. We will have our usual Waldorf puppet stories, wholesome food, outdoor nature play and seasonal songs with our craft circle. Cost is £80 for the half-term from 16th Jan, 5 weeks to Feb 13th).

There is also space in TUESDAYS 10 to 12pm group starting on 13th Jan to 10th Feb.

Once you have booked, you will be given priority to keep your space each following half-term. Craft is not obligatory, you are welcome to come along and draw and play alongside us with beeswax crayons.

Across this half-term, we will be making a simple Waldorf doll similar to below. BOOKINGS by 12th Jan please. Email jo.bluebells@mail.com or enquire on WhatsApp 07949 240638

08/12/2025

"The second light of Advent is the light of plants. Plants that reach up to the sun and in the breezes dance." This week in Bluebells Rosie, Sam and Pip will carry on up the starry path and we will light the second candle for the plant kingdom and make greenery adorned beeswax candles, in walnut shells on clay stars. Space available Thurs, Tues one space. WhatsApp Jo 07949240638 to book. At the beautiful Rookery Gardens Enquire at healthesole@hotmail.com.

01/12/2025

"The first light of Advent is the light of stones. Stones that live in crystals, seashells and bones." This week in Bluebells Rosie, Sam and Pip will begin the starry path and we will light the candle for the mineral kingdom and make nature stars. Space available Thurs, Tues one space. WhatsApp Jo 07949240638 to book. Rookery Gardens Enquire at healthesole@hotmail.com.

26/11/2025

This week is Advent spiral week in Bluebells, a beautiful Waldorf tradition. We have another one for tomorrow's Thursday group if you would like to book and join us. Special thanks to Rookery gardener Frankie, who gathered an amazing amount of greenery for our lovely spiral. It was heart warming! Here are photos from Tuesday, the spiral set up, the little ones walking up collecting their candle apples and sparkling the spiral with them. Warming porridge and we even made wreaths too, in the sun 🌞⭐️🌙🌷
Bookings healthesole@hotmail.com WhatsApp 07949 240638
Last session for this half-term 18th Dec.

23/11/2025

Bluebells for parents & 1 to 4.5yrs. ✨ADVENT SPIRAL this week
🍂Spaces for Tuesdays and Thursdays available till 18th December.
🌟Bookings for next half-term: 6th January to 12th February £15/wk
💫2hr Parent and Child Groups on Tues 10am and Thurs 9:45am
Bookings: Whatsapp 07949 240638 Email healthesole@hotmail.com
🌳The Rookery Gardens, Streatham Common South, SW16 3HR
🫶A Waldorf Parent and Child Outdoor group, a craft group, a singing group, a play group, a parent support group, all rolled into oneness!
🙌Steiner trained and Pikler inspired for helping the connection in your formative relationship with your little ones.
🌈Outdoors, with shelter when weather is bad.
Aids resiliency, movement and nature connection.
😋We'll warm tummies with porridge (blueberry-pink), warm bodies with play silks to 'fly' and beanies to throw and fun games. We'll warm hearts with puppet shows, songs and company.

17/11/2025

Little hands pressed into clay, warming and soft. A visit to the pond with a new friend and the pinecone-fluffy glow of our lanterns with a nature twist! It is beautiful here in our patch, the sun shining on Rosie and Sam was a blessed morning and we "go with our bright little lanterns" up to the majestic woods.
Spaces on Thursdays 945 to 1145am 2hr outdoor groups, with shelter if needed. 07949240638 to book ✨

09/11/2025

Well done Streatham Common Cooperative and thank you for hosting Bluebells Parent & Child Groups in your RHS gold award winning gardens. You deserve this amazing award 😍

The RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Award results 2025 are in and we are WINNERS ! ✨️🏆🥇

As always a big to all our super SCCOOP staff and and our partners at Friends of Streatham Common, Lambeth Council, Froglife, The Inkspot Brewery, Streatham Common Community Garden and TCV - The Conservation Volunteers TCV London Corporate Team for all their support in achieving and suc-Seeding! 🌱🌳♻️💚

Together with the we survive and thrive 🫶

The Rookery Gardens
Gold 🏆
Best in Category ✨️

Streatham Common LNR - with Lambeth Council, and Streatham Common Paddling Pool 's PLUG who run the Paddling Pool
Gold 🏆

Streatham Common (with Lambeth Council)
Gold 🏆

Streatham Common Community Garden
Outstanding ✨️

18/10/2025

Thank you all for a beautiful Harvest Term!
🍂Bookings for next term: 4th November to 18th December. 2hr Parent and Child Groups on Tues 10am and Thurs 9:45am
Bookings: Whatsapp 07949 240638 Email healthesole@hotmail.com
🌳The Rookery Gardens, Streatham Common South, SW16 3HR
🫶A Waldorf Parent and Child Outdoor group, a craft group, a singing group, a play group, a parent support group, all rolled into oneness!
🙌Steiner trained and Pikler inspired for helping the connection in your formative relationship with your little ones.
🌈Outdoors, with shelter when weather is bad.
Aids resiliency, movement and nature connection.
😋This term, we'll warm tummies with porridge (blueberry-pink), warm bodies with play silks to 'fly' and beanies to throw and fun games. We'll warm hearts with puppet shows, songs and company.

17/10/2025

Many BENEFITS OF BEING OUTDOORS, so come to BLUEBELLS at The Rookery Gardens and walks into the woodlands! Chris and Xand share their conversation about nature with Baroness Kathy Willis, Professor of Biodiversity at Oxford University.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m6zyqx from BBC Radio 4s What's Up Doc talking about all the benefits of being OUTDOORS:
Here are some notes quoted (pretty much) from Kathy Willis:
🌳changes in cortisol, lowering of adrenaline, psychological metrics done through measurement of brainwave activity, with clinically significant changes, when you have SEEN, TOUCHED, HEARD different aspects of nature.
🌳the SCENT; some of those molecules pass into your blood, and once they are in your blood they interact in the same way and along the same biochemical pathways as if you're taking a prescription drug - in forests there are volatile compounds at ambient levels you smell in the air, airborne drugs.
🌳 Biodiversity itself is full of good bacteria. Your gut and your skin adopt the signature of the nature you're in and it adopts the microbiome of the nature.
🌳Contact with soil can enhance your T-cells
🌳Being in a wood, you've got the stacked benefits of sound, sight, touch, scent, maximises all of the benefits.
🌳When we scan a landscape we pick out the fractal dimension of the landscape - the number of times a shape divides into itself - trees are naturally fractal... big branch, divides into smaller branches, down to twigs. When measured brainwave activity and showed fractal images.... the greatest physiological relaxation is landscape with trees.
🍎🍂🍃Come and join Bluebells for all year round OUTDOOR PARENT AND CHILD groups. Next term BOOKING NOW for 4th November to 18th December. healthesole@hotmail.com or WhatsApp Jo Pearce 07949 240638

13/10/2025

A day to nourish myself and learn with Children's Forest. My dear friend Maria came with me to the Autumn Gathering day with the wonderful Lucinda Warner and Katie Smith.

We began at the blackthorn tree and learnt how sloe berries lose their astringent taste when roasted on the campfire. We crushed open prickly sweet chestnut shells for their treasure, to roast. We gathered creeping thistle flowers for some sweet wholeness for our camp tea, along with nettle and wild yarrow and learnt of it’s healing medicinal properties.

For our pancake booster syrup we gathered rosehips, hawthorn berries for their Vit C and heart healing gifts. We popped Himalayan balsam seeds and gathered nettle seeds to add to pancakes. We honoured the oaks and feasted like fairy kings and queens at the campfire. Thank you to Lucinda and Katie for a wonderful day.