Nature provides us with some of the most beautiful items to transform into even more beautiful crafts. Six projects allow readers to explore their creativity and learn skills that will last a lifetime. A great title for individual or group project use.
So many great craft materials can be found in nature. Twigs, pebbles, pinecones, and even sand can be part of simple, fun projects. Readers will not only like trying out new crafts, but also enjoy exploring nature to find what they need for each! Colorful photographs and clear instructions guide readers through twig birdhouses, pressed-flower coasters, and more. Readers will paint, glue, and snip their way to lovely crafts that can add a little natural wonder to any room!
Keep your kids' boredom at bay with 35 environmentally-friendly ideas they'll love to make. Designed with the environment in mind, this brilliant collection of craft projects will keep kids entertained for hours. It features decorations, toys, jewellery, gifts, and more, every one of them incorporating natural materials – woodland folk are created from pine cones and seed pods, a length of bark is the base for an animal painting, and a piece of slate is transformed into a pretty brooch or badge. The fun ideas range from bark rubbings for budding artists to herb head flowerpots for junior gardeners and are sure to give kids the creative bug. Best of all, finding the project materials encourages kids to get outside! They can gather shells on the beach to make the shell mice, or collect leaves and twigs on a countryside walk to make a printed fox wall hanging. Even their own garden will become an exciting source of crafty materials.
Explore the natural world in a new and creative way. Crafters practice comprehension skills as they use text and diagrams to follow the steps for each project. The activities push students to learn and apply domain-specific vocabulary, practice new techniques, and build on concepts that may already be familiar. Other tools, including an index and additional resources, encourage readers to locate information and explore further independently.
Make fun animals and objects from nature's finest materials! Collect twigs, pine cones, feathers, leaves, shells and pebbles from your garden, park or holiday and create animals and objects with them. Stunning projects include a bird nest bowl made with feathers and leaves, a nut mask and feather mask, seed pod flowers and pine cone owls, a feathery bird bookmark, fir cone fish mobile, painted snail shells and twigs, and a twinkling night light jar. The perfect opportunity to learn about the nature around you whilst being creative, this unique book features over 40 crafty makes and a well-balanced mix of techniques, materials and colours that are great for parents and children to do together.
"Looking for quick and easy nature projects for your makerspace? Look no further! From frozen suncatchers and mini mushroom patches to seed art and porcupine pinecones, these amazing 10-minute outdoor-inspired projects will have kids making in no time!"--