Nature is important to children’s well being and happiness, as well as it being important we all connect to nature. Nature play is the best way of helping our children to develop well physically, emotionally, and socially. It’s got all bases covered! Nature play, nature craft, and nature based activities all help strengthen the connection and bond with nature. We were recently very lucky to …
Nature Craft – Make A Twig Pot
Nature is important to children’s well being and happiness, as well as it being important we all connect to nature. Nature play is the best way of helping our children to develop well physically, emotionally, and socially. It’s got all bases covered! Nature play, nature craft, and nature based activities all help strengthen the connection and bond with nature. We were recently very lucky to …
Carving & Whittling For Children – Benefits & Tips
Whittling is the art of carving shapes with a knife. Children love creating and there is something satisfying about making something from wood. Our little lady adores her woodwork classes at school, which she has been doing for a few years now. We have purchased two books to help us with our new endeavour of whittling for children. They are Bushcraft, …
5 Nature Crafts To Develop Bushcraft Skills
What is bushcraft? It is being able to use the resources in nature that are all around us to survive in the great outdoors. Children learn these skills through doing practical outdoor tasks and taking risks. Nature crafts are a great fun way to develop bushcraft skills, so I have written about a few here. There are many benefits to nature play, but I feel one …
Mud And Bloom Nature Box – Connect With Nature
*ad/gifted We were sent the box from Mud and Bloom for free, to put through its paces and test, in exchange for writing the review. All opinions are honest and my own* Nature is important to children’s well being and happiness, as well as it being important we all need to connect to nature. Nature play is the best way of …
Nature Art – Air Dry Clay Figures
Today was a gorgeous warm (ish), but sunny autumnal day, so we decided to chill out in the garden doing some nature art. We had some air dry clay left over from a previous crafting project, so we decided to use that up and do something with it, before it completely air dried itself out in the crafting drawers! Nature …
Flower Pounding – Nature’s Art
Flower pounding is a very effective way of doing art with nature. My trio love doing this because it so easy and very effective. We also love seeing how our results change over the course of the four seasons. So what supplies are required for flower pounding? Very few?! Any shape or size of cotton based material…plain is better as …
Blowing Dandelion Bubbles – Nature’s Bubble Blower.
Have you ever made a nature bubble wand? We have just had a lovely afternoon blowing dandelion bubbles through the plant’s stem 🙂 The trio loved making these and then experimenting with them also. It’s a really easy activity to prepare, and because it’s outside all mess is outdoors too…bonus! What do you need for blowing dandelion bubbles? Washing up …
Seed Bombs – The Gardening Grenade!
Seed bombs are a great way to introduce colour, flowers, and therefore wildlife, into corners where nobody seems to care….just go for a walk, and lob one of these creations into a place that is dull and boring and then return in the summer to see if it has worked. They are great for brightening up places you feel are …
A Fairy Garden – Make Tinkerbell and Her Friends a Home.
Hooray, spring is probably here now for good, and we can take our crafting and making back into the great outdoors 🙂 So much easier especially when your supplies come from there and are a tad messy. Today our little lady decided she was going to build a fairy garden. Cue 2 little boys wanting to make one as well, …