Family Community Holiday

FULLY BOOKED!

Kids and parents get the chance to run wild for a week of fun and friendship on the Family Community Holiday.

Our mountainside forest community has a daily rhythm, which goes something like this: After a delicious buffet breakfast, we gather for songs, dancing and fun games in the Long Room in the forest. We play fun games and this play is directed by the age of the children and the games they love to play.

Later in the morning, after a fruit or cake break, we do arty crafty stuff together. Things we have loved are building a primitive pottery kiln, making and firing ceramics and helping a local family to build their cob house. We have taken a meditative walk in the forest and painted our experience on a beautiful group mural. One year I invited a local English artist and we spent a beautiful day doing eco printing and each child and adult created a silk hanging. We have made jewellery from our ceramics and designed some amazing T-shirts, which many children wore as they were leaving. Last year, the parents learnt massage one morning, while the children were supervised in preparing the lunch that day.

We encourage and support parents and children to join in with these arts and crafts, but most of all, we want you to be yourself and enjoy! There is a lot of space for children to roam freely and safely.

After lunch, we head down the mountain to the Aegean Sea for an afternoon of splashing in the beautiful blue sea or resting in the shade. Or we go wild swimming in mountain plunge pools and waterfalls in the local area.

On our return from the beach, some of us join the community to help out with the cooking or watering of the gardens. This is a great, fun opportunity for kids to learn life skills. Others hang out on the hammocks or play on the swings.

Our evening vegetarian banquet is followed by a cleanup session and then the evening usually unfolds in candlelit song, chat and fun. One night during the week we go to a taverna, which is not included in the cost of the holiday and is often preceded by a dance in the Long Room.