The wheat is being harvested and today they harvested the field directly to the side of our house so we have spent much of the day watching all the action. Much to the boys' delight, the combine harvester is now spending the night resting outside our bedroom window and will have an early start again tomorrow.
Before the advent of mechanization, which speeded up the harvest process, every man, woman and child became available to help at the harvest, the highlight of the farming year
Yesterday, we did some wheat weaving.
This is the countryman's favour we made.
Corn dollies Sol made. A mother and a child.
Leo and Noah's wheat and oat bouquet. (They call it a 'sun'!) We rolled a lump of clay and then stuck oat and wheat straws into the clay. A decoration they could manage on their own.
We also made a loaf of harvest bread. Here is Sol kneading the dough.
What an exciting happening right next to your house!!! My Mr T would literally go bananas to see a combine harvester at work. Thanks for sharing on Friday's Nature Table.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and magic.
Hi Magiconions,
ReplyDeleteBoys really love this sort of thing, don't they! The driver, or harvestman, as Noah called him offered the children a ride in the combine harvester as he harvested but they much preferred to watch than to get into that giant! They kept taking peeks out the window at the resting giant before finally nodding off to sleep!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend!
What a great experience for your kids to have the harvesting happening nearby! Your projects are creative, easy-to-make, and fun. Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI just checked a book out of the library about how to do wheat straw braiding, but all the designs looked so difficult I was kind of discouraged. Your pictures give me better ideas of how to do this in a way that my eight year old and I can both handle.
ReplyDeleteI love your beautiful wheat creations!
ReplyDeleteThis is so exciting Kelly, my boys would be in their element to have a combine harvester right next door...
ReplyDeleteYour wheat weaving is very beautiful:)
Thank you for sharing all your inspiring crafts.
Happy Saturday to you my friend,
Blessings
Linda
I love the mother and child corn dollies! I haven't seen corn dollies since I was a young child. Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is simply lovely. I love the wheat weaving especially.
ReplyDeleteOh what wonderful wheat weavings and creations. I love that dried feathery look...and the sandy colours...sigh.
ReplyDeleteHow great for your little ones to be so close to the origins of food...what a perfect way to learn and develop appreciation for the earth!
btw banksia men are the seed pods of our native banksia (or bottlebrush) flowers... and are also from the imagination of May Gibbs who wrote snugglepot and cuddlepie if you are familiar with those childrens stories...but I think any child upon seeing those *mouths* wide open would imagine anything similar...lovely!
Hello Crescent Moon
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting! You are so right about most of the wheat weavings in books being quite difficult for adults and especially for children. They certainly can be daunting! I was eager that my children would be able to create wheat crafts they could accomplish on their own and enjoy the process.
Best wishes
Kelly
Hi Jennifer and Renee,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your words! It is great to be surrounded by this sort of farm activity. We watched that wheat being sown, watched it grow with the help of the rain and the sun, and watched it being harvested. So, a close-to-home experience for us!
Dear Linda
Boys just love those big machines. Yesterday, they watched the balers baling up the straw and they decided they will be hay balers when they grow up!
Have a great week.
Best wishes
Kelly
I love the corn (wheat?) dolls. It's really starting to feel like Fall. These pictures capture the harvest beautifully.
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