Parks, forests, coasts, urban gardens, backyards, or any space where nature is predominant are prime places for nature-connection experiences. The activities shared here may be done alone, in pairs…
One of our favorite crafts to make are paper lanterns. We like making them for holidays, especially the fourth of July!
Nature is such a great inspiration for so many kid's crafts and activities and you can never miss with any of these wonderful Waldorf inspired ideas. To go even further I suggest getting one or more seasonal Waldorf books that will inspire creativity and help your child to connect even more with nature through reading and understanding
Well, my Spring Break is officially over as of tomorrow, and to ease the pain, I decided to come up with an art project to break up to tedi...
Learn easy ways to press flowers and see over 20 crafts to try with these beautiful pieces of nature! Both children and adults will love these
Hello Everyone, Those of you working on the Minglewood BOM through In Between Stitches will be receiving your shipments soon. This month you will be making two Kaleidoscope blocks. For me, this was the most challenging of all the blocks. TIP: Make sure when you make the half-square triangles with pieces C and E that you trim them to 1-7/8". Just take your time on this block and it will all come together beautifully. I made two Forest Path blocks. But you have the option of making only one if you wish. You could change this up and make a Lawyer's Puzzle on page 45 of your Minglewood book. Since we live in the forest, the Forest Path block was the block for me! TIP: Cut your light 5-3/8"(A) squares first before you cut all the rest. My blocks are quite similar. Enjoy your day. Be creative and have fun. As always, Lynn
Recycled Plastic bottle craft tutorials Plastic is not only associated to pollution but on positive side, it can help you
Kids will love this enchanting Nature Suncatcher Craft! Invite your little ones to explore nature and have fun making their own adorable suncatcher craft. You won't believe how simple it is to make, you only need a few household items and a free afternoon to spend outside with your little ones exploring nature and doing some crafting.
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This is a magical place. An ancient oak wood. A precious fragment of the 'wild wood' that we are incredibly lucky to have still. 300 Sessile oaks (quercus petraea) growing above the Avon Water Gorge in Lanarkshire. This 'wild wood' of the popular imagination is now described by scientists as 'woodland pasture'.When the ice began to retreat 10 000 years ago, living things began to move in gradually from the south, lichens, mosses, fungi and ferns then seed bearing plants and finally trees. As soon as the Neolithic people returned to Scotland, with their animals after the Ice Age, they began to manage the environment. They exploited it for hunting, grazing, fuel and food and it turned out that woodland flourished under human management. Coppicing allowed light to fall on the forest floor which encouraged germination and new growth. The multi-trunked oaks at Cadzow are evidence of coppicing long, long ago. An important consequence of this act of decapitation was to confer virtual immortality upon the severed stump. A coppiced tree lives for much longer than a maiden tree, almost forever, forever when compared to human lives. Dendrochronology (tree ring analysis) has dated many of the trees to c1460, at the time the oaks were enclosed in a park, however the oldest of them may well date to the reign of David 1 (1124-1153) which would make the Cadzow oaks the oldest living trees in Scotland. These veteran trees have had the space to grow and develop their own extraordinary contorted shapes. Many of the trees are what is known as stag headed with bleached dead branches sticking out from the living crowns. This is a characteristic of veteran oaks and is one of the tree's survival mechanisms. As the trunks begin to age, the outer branches die back to conserve the tree's resources, it then forms a newer crown lower down. Up close these veteran trees are as extraordinary as they are from a distance. Their trunks are gnarled and twisted, festooned with epiphyte ferns, with mosses and epicormic twigs sprouting whiskery from the rough bark. The hollows and crevices are home to many species of invertebrate creatures and insects, some of them so rare that Cadzow has been declared an S.S.S.I. or Site of Special Scientific Interest. One of the defining characteristics of woodland pasture is that the trees are spaced out from each other, standing in open grass land, cropped by deer, wild boar and aurochs and later by cattle, sheep and pigs. Trees growing in an open savannah is a landscape that has always been loved by people and stirs something deep within the human psyche. Perhaps we recognize our original forest home. A place to get lost in, a place to hide in. And as Chateaubriand observed, 'forests were the first temples of God.' The Cadzow oaks were once a part of one of the royal forests established by David 1 (1124-1153). Before his reign, land tenure in Scotland was still based on the old Celtic and Norse traditions. David 1 systematically introduced the (alien) feudal system into Scotland in which sovereignty is vested in the Crown. He created the first burghs, founded monasteries, established sheriffs jurisdictions and granted feudal charters to the Norman knights and those Scots who supported him. Royal forests including Cadzow were established where henceforth no one could hunt without the monarch's permission. By the early 14th Century Cadzow had passed into the hands of the Hamilton family. In the early 16th Century Cadzow was enclosed in a park formed by closing off a bend in the Avon Water to form a hunting reserve. The Hamilton family built the 'castle in the woods of Hamilton', now known as Cadzow castle on the edge of the gorge. Hunting remained at the heart of land use in Cadzow and in the 17th Century the duke of Hamilton built the magnificent hunting lodge of Chatelherault on the eastern side of the gorge. However by this time the fox was fast becoming the quarry of choice leaving deer as merely graceful adornments to the landscape. In the mid 19th Century the woodland landscape of Cadzow inspired the Cadzow artists a group of landscape painters. The Cadzow oaks passed into the care of to the state in 1973, in lieu of death duties after the death of the 14th Duke of Hamilton, and now form part of the Chatelherault Country Park
These stick nature looms are easy to make and you can make them in a variety of sizes. We typically add flowers during spring/summer and leaves during autumn.
How to Create a Lean-to Shelter in the Deciduous Forest: Imagine you find yourself alone in the middle of nowhere... Actually, you find that you are alone in the deciduous forest. You can see, between the tree leaves, that night is approaching, and with the darkness comes many an uncertainty. The night br…
Want to make your own custom jigsaw puzzles? Use these blank jigsaw puzzle templates. There are nine printable templates and a step-by-step tutorial.
Crayons take on a whole new coolness level with this easy and totally non-messy crayon transfer technique.
Introducing the constellations and stars to kids is easy with this simple science activity for preschoolers! For this constellation game, you just need
Here's how to make the cutest Dutch Paper Windmill that really spins! You can make it out of colored card stock or painted cardboard from the free pattern here.
Sensory play is one of the most important ways that we can educate our children. Thoroughly teaching children about the five senses (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling) will significantly help will their individual development. Sensory development helps children in many ways, but here are some overall benefits of practicing sensory activities with your child: […]
If you're looking how to make your twig pencils, then we have the fun diy pencils tutorial for you. I can't tell you how excited I am about this project.
We had such a lovely time in forest School last week. All of the Yr5 group got very muddy making their tree faces and natural pictures and we were very impressed with what they created!
Welcome Summer with these free printable Hello Summer Bingo Cards. Make your summer fun filled with the cute images associated with Summer. These colorful cards are so much fun to play.
Ok, here it is! I hope this works for you. Continuing from yesterdays post, this is the template for the cute box that will hold the tiny...
Learn how to draw trees in this simple step by step demonstration of the process of drawing an oak.
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Hello Everyone, I'm slowly making progress on my Gentry's Mill quilt. The large floral in the center of this block is gorgeous! There is also a red floral which will be in four other blocks. I broke some rules on this block. I wanted the stripes to frame the block, so I cut the fabric out on the bias. I starch all of my fabric first, and the stripe fabric received a double dose of starch so it wouldn't stretch. In fact, the fabric was so stiff, you could bounce a quarter of it. I love this block! The cameo fabric around this block is one of my favorite fabrics in the line. I scanned one of Mr. Joe's ties and the graphic artist at Marcus Fabrics put the floral bouquet in the center. This block is just so special to me. The next two blocks take a fair bit of time to make, and I have three more of each one to construct. The pieces are all cut out, and this is going to be front and center in my sewing room today. Please talk to your local quilt shop if you are interested in the BOM offered by Marcus Fabrics. I'm feeling so much better and have to remind myself that I need to take it easy occasionally throughout the day. On a funny note, I have to wear compression stockings every day and all day to keep the blood flowing. I have a silk sleeve which I put over my foot to get the compression stocking on......but I can't pull the silk sleeve out through the toe area. That is Mr. Joe's job. At the end of the day, I can't get the stocking off by myself and that's Mr. Joe's job too. Keep in mind these stockings are compressed to the max. The first time he took the stocking off, his manhood was brutally attacked by this spring-loaded large piece of elastic! Luckily, we don't want to have more children. After doing some research, I found compression stockings with zippers. I can put them on and take them off all by myself which makes for a happy husband who's no longer gun-shy about being attacked by a large piece of flying elastic! Soon, Lynn
