Martin Brockman, a local woodsman, spent an afternoon with 19 children as part of the Ashford Green Corridor summer events programme. Children learnt about trees and made African rattles, claves (sticks made into percussion instruments), and simple whistles from wood, some of which was gathered from the surrounding woodland. The event took place in the shade of the willows at Buxford Meadow near Singleton and is part of a programme of activities organised by the Kentish Stour Countryside Project. Following the making of the mucial instruments some of the children sang a song with their instruments.