Making natural paintbrushes is a fun activity that produces great results! We really enjoyed this one – from making the brushes, to seeing the end product of the painting. It was all really neat! We have painted with spaghetti, pinecones, and cotton before, but this one definitely took the cake. These brushes would also work […]
Nature Collage Craft
Doing a collage is a fun way to incorporate nature into art time. We did one last year when we were in Maryland. This time, we used contact paper and pressed different leaves, flowers, and other small, flat pieces to the sticky paper. It turned out great! If you don’t have contact paper, construction paper […]
Painting With Nature
Every time we visit a local park, Lorelai takes her “critter box” or a plastic baggie to collect ‘goodies’. This time, she collected acorns and pine cones. The reason behind this is a long ongoing project: her fairy house. She came up with the idea to make a fairy house out of an old amazon […]
Nature Collage Craft
It’s so beautiful outside today. This is definitely MY kind of weather! High 60’s, breezy, and sun peaking out behind big puffy clouds. We rode the four-wheeler over to the farm and I did a time lapse video (lots of pictures put together to make a movie) of the clouds rolling across the sky. While […]
