Make at Home: Nature Art

Rediscover the wonders of autumn with the children in your life. As you stroll with leaves crunching underfoot notice the sights, sounds, and smells of fall while collecting objects from nature to use in this craft.

Materials

• A basket or bag for carrying treasures discovered during your walk • Paper • Glue

Activities

• Invite your little one to walk, skip, hop, and run.

• Search for colorful leaves and discuss their varying shapes.

• Point out the trees from which they may have fallen. • Notice any nuts laying on the ground and guess which animals might eat them.

• Talk about how seeds grow into new plants and trees, eventually producing oxygen and food.

• Look for feathers and ask your child where they came from.

• Observe insects, animals, and plants.

Make it together

Once you’ve collected enough treasures, invite your child to glue them to a piece of paper in any way they’d like. They may heap the pieces all together, or they may spread them out and glue each object individually. Encourage them to use their imagination. When they’re finished, and the masterpiece is dry, hang it up so your child can show it to others.

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