It is a cold, wet afternoon and children sit huddled around a bag of clay making cobra snakes and coil pots. Some are wrapped up in thick coats, while others shiver in thin long-sleeved tops.
"We often have to send the children home to put coats on as they don't wear clothes that are warm enough. We hold the sessions even if it is raining or snowing," says Angela Frankham, a play ranger from the Community Play Rangers scheme that covers Bath and North East Somerset.
About 25 children cluster in groups in the park in Keynsham, a town situated between Bath and Bristol. While some are gathered around the clay, others take it in turns to lie in an old sheet that has been tied to some playground equipment and transformed into a hammock.
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