Adventuring through childhood... with love and dysfunction in tow
The natural resources that Mother Nature has to offer are ideal for any budding artist wanting to create an organic masterpiece. Best of all the materials are free! Whether you are in your own backyard, collecting leaves and blossoms blowing in the street or beachcombing the seashore, you are never short things to find.
There’s nothing better than taking a walk in the fresh air and collecting some of nature’s natural treasures. But what can you do with your loot? We decided that we were going to make some easy peasy flowers crowns!
For Ms A’s 6 month memory we decided to have some fun with the blossom that’s falling off of the trees at the moment, need I say that it’s as beautiful as I deem her to be ????
Everybody loves fairies right? And flower fairies are the best! We decided that we would head out into the garden and collect some flowers and leaves and make our own… We drew some simple stick figures onto paper and set about making our fairies… Here’s what we came up with…
Isn’t blossom beautiful?! We picked up some blossom on the way home from school to play with and decided it would be gorgeous if we had a dress made from it….so that’s exactly what we did! We printed off some photos and became our our blossom fashion designers.
Today we walked to the blossom tree. We’ve seen this blossom tree bloom, shed & weather a lot. It’s outside our hospital in a beautiful park laden with squirrels adjoining.
We decided to go on a spring walk to pick up fallen blossom to try our hand at some blossom art. We found lots of beautiful colours. Here’s how we did…