Nature Craft

🌿 Clay Candle Holders 🌿

We love making these because you can do so many different types all with items you can find in outside and it will cost you next to nothing! 🌳💕

What we used 👇

🌿 Gumnuts
🌿 Dried wattle
🌿 Gumleaves
🌿 Tea light candle
🌿 Homemade clay

🌿 Homemade clay Recipe 🌿

Two cups of flour
Two cups of salt
1 cup of baking soda
2 cup of water

🌿 Mix together well
🌿 If it's too sticky or runny add more flour and If it's too dry add more water
🌿 It should have a playdough like consistency 👌

🌿 Roll your clay into a ball
🌿 Use your tea...

🌿🌷🐚 Nature Fairies 🐚🌷🌿

What we used 👇

🌷 Flowers and Leaves
🌷 Sticks
🌷 Gumnuts
🌷 Seashells
🌷 Rocks
🌷 Hot Glue gun

Lily went around the garden and collected some bits and pieces this morning to add with the treasures she already has in our nature craft box from previous garden and beach hunting 🌿

Picking which flowers and shells and rocks we used for their skirts and hair was like dressing up her own dolls 🤗

We glued them onto long sticks so Lily can use them for play easily and also we can stick them in our fairy garden outside ✨

Bringing the beach to us and we made some sea shell candles and lantern ✨

What we used:
🐚 Sea Shells
🐚 Glass Gems
🐚 Sand
🐚 Half used up tea light candles
🐚 Empty old glass jar
🐚 Craft glue
🐚 Hot glue gun

🕯️ Sea shell candles 🕯️

I posted a couple of weeks ago about how we make new candles when our old candles are getting a bit drabby but if you missed it 👇

🕯️ Gather all our old candles and remove the wicks to use in your new candles
🕯️ Pop the candles in a bowl
🕯️ To melt them down you can use a couple of methods,...

BAYou really can make anything into something - including bits of bark found on the ground fallen of a tree! 🌳🌱🌼🌹

We can often hear a family of owls in the trees behind our home - we can always hear them but don't often get the chance to see them! 🏡

So here we have some bark owls we made that live happily hanging on our kitchen window where we get to see them everyday! 🤗

You need:
🌿 Bark - any sizes, we used chunky bark for their bodies and thinner bark for wings and head here we have literally used 8 small...

We made these little guys this morning and they were dry by this afternoon - perfect for a slow play afternoon 😌

All you need

🐌 Seashells
🐌 Salt dough (see our homemade salt dough post for recipe)
🐌 Little sticks

Roll your saltdough into little snail bodies 🐌 stick your seashells ontop 🐚
use your little sticks for their eyes 👀
And leave to dry! 👏

If you find their little shell backs aren't sticking you can either add more dough or a little bit of glue 😉

So simple and the best part is after the craft activity your little one has some new little friends...