Nature Boxes

Nature boxes created out of egg boxes. Wonderful fun finding all things colourful on nature walks.

A great idea I saw somewhere but don't know where, maybe Crafty Crow..Such fun and so easy for children to make.





Perfect for keeping nature treasures.

Conker webs

Using some of the conkers we collected yesterday we weaved conker webs today.

What we did:

Choose a nice, big conker.

Using a skewer pierce eight holes evenly around the edges of the conker.

Stick cocktail sticks in these holes. Trim off the pointy edges.

Choose your yarn, tie it onto a cocktail stick and off you go.

Under the next stick, over the top and to the next one.  Continue like this round and round and change yarn colour if you want to as you go along.

If you don't have horse chestnuts in your area, or  something similar, you could always try weaving ojos de dios if you haven't come across this before.

Conkers!

We visited our favourite arboretum yesterday and collected lots of conkers (from horse chestnut trees).  Strangely, there are no horse chestnut trees growing on this farm.  We hope to germinate a few and hopefully plant the seedlings here.  We love collecting conkers each year and really look forward to collecting them and playing with them and using them for lots of crafts!  Such, such fun.

Conkers in the pods.

Looking amongst the fallen leaves for the beautiful treasures!

We spotted this delightful little horse chestnut elf sitting in his horse chestnut tree.

Our collection of conkers (with a few alder cones in there too).

Nature Painting

We collected lots of vibrant colours of late summer like poppy petals, dandelions, calendulas, blackberries, elderberries, green grass and a little dirt.  

We used thick watercolour paper and used our hands to squish the plant materials into beautiful natural paints.  We painted with our hands.

Such a sensory experience - the scents, the feel, and such bright colours!

Yellows, purples, greens, reds and browns.

What a lot of fun possibilities with this!