Thanksgiving Nature Crafts
We love to encourage our Explorers to explore their creativity, and we can practice crafts with resources all around us. This fall, make use of natural materials for fun arts and crafts! Here are some our favorite nature-inspired art projects for the autumn season.
To make a dried fruit garland, start out with fruit cut into thin slices. You can use any fruit you want, such as apples, oranges, and more! Make a hole in each slice, and place them to dry in a cool area (they will usually dry within a day). Once the fruits are dry, string a piece of yarn through the holes within each slice. Hang it up and enjoy your harvest garland!
Tape some block paper to the floor and position leaves with the veins facing up. Cover this with another layer of block paper, and tape that down too. Color over the top paper with crayons and enjoy the leaf texture mural!
Collect bark, acorns, twigs, and seeds from outside (making sure they are found on the ground rather than from a living plant). You can chip and break the bark into the shape of an owl, and then using craft glue, place acorn caps on the bark to create the owl’s “eyes.” Then, glue a seed under the eyes to make a beak, and glue the owl onto a branch to perch!
Acquire feathers from a craft store or outside, and cut them in half. Using a small amount of hot glue, place the feathers onto the pinecone to look like the rear end of a turkey.
Next, using felt and googly eyes, glue on a beak and the bird’s eyes.
For more ideas of crafts involving resources from nature, check out this page created by Rhythms of Play!
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