We had a brief period of sunshine in amongst all the rain the other week. The girls were keen to get outside but also wanted to do some crafting so I thought we’d combine the two and make some nature collages out in the garden.
Setting up was easy – two colourful pieces of card taped down in the tuff spot and covered with PVA glue.
The girls had lots of fun picking up leaves, twigs, grass, moss and daisies in the garden and creating a picture with them. Sometimes they focused on having their own piece of coloured card; at other moments they seemed to be combining their efforts to make one picture. Whichever they were doing, they were both happily engrossed in finding their little treasures and adding them to the picture.
Some of the things didn’t stick as well as others but it didn’t really matter. It was just fun being out in the garden, exploring and being creative. We looked at the different things we found – exploring the different shapes of the leaves, the different textures of each of the objects and the different colours of the items making up the pictures.
After a while, Sophie found the lure of the slide and cosy coupe car more inviting than the nature collages but Jessica stayed focused on making pictures for quite some time.
We left the pictures in the garage overnight to dry out and I was quite impressed by just how well most of the items stuck to the card. It’s something I’d like to try again in different seasons and see what differences there are in the pictures created.
Wow they look busy. Lots of fun
Thanks Karen, we really enjoyed it 🙂
It’s always fascinating seeing what children pick up and treasure from nature. Such a lovely idea getting them to make nature collages with them.
I do love watching them explore things outside and they had so much fun making their collages 🙂
What a lovely idea and a wonderful seasonal craft, as you say a good one to come back to at each season and see the changes in the garden. I love the photos of the girls at work and you can tell Jessica is the older with her longer attention spell at creating her collage. Great to have something they can both do together though and what a lovely garden to play in after. Thank you for sharing with me on Country Kids
Thanks Fiona – I’ll definitely be trying this one again! 🙂
This looks like a fun activity! I think I’ll have to try this out too with my girl, she is getting more and more interested in crafts and colouring and playing with glue now that she is nearly three. And we could do this outside which is a bonus! #countrykids
It was a great way of combining crafts with time outside 🙂
Love the nature collages. It’s such a great activity in the garden. Looks like they really got stuck in enjoying it. #countrykids
Thanks Karen – we had lots of fun 🙂
Looks like a great activity to get them exploring the small things in the garden! Will be interesting to see what the collect in different seasons. #CountryKids
We had lots of fun – we’ll definitely be trying it again 🙂
A nature collage sounds like a grand idea! That would certainly keep little T busy 😉 #countrykids
It was lots of fun – I’m sure Little T would love it 🙂
This has long been one of our favourite activities, we also collect treasure around our neighbourhood for collages too #CountryKids
Oh that sounds like fun too – makes for a little more variety with the objects in the collage 🙂
This is a great idea. I struggle with crafts but this is really easy and my son loves anything outdoors.
Thank you Emma – it’s a great way of combining crafts and time outdoors 🙂
What a lovely idea. Will have to try this with Tilly on the next dry day. It doesn’t feel like we’ve had many of them recently!
Thanks Dan – hopefully we’ll have a little more dry weather soon so you can give it a try! 🙂
What a brilliant idea Louise! So simple but so much fun! Xx