Nature Craft

Having a daughter who is so I love with nature is great but it also means that nature often comes inside our home including the slimy crawly creeping things 😅

Last year Lily was playing in the lounge with her dollhouse and when I asked her from the kitchen what she was doing she said she was making her "snake" a bed I thought oh okay nodded my head and entertained her story (as you do as a mum) thinking it was in her imaginary play!

When I walked into the lounge I found her holding her dolls bed and seen something...

Cleaning out the freezer the other day right down the back I found a bag of (very🙈) expired frozen blueberries!

Instead of throwing them away I'd heard that blueberries make a pretty purple nature dye and you don't even need many blueberries to make the dye at all (although ours was a huge bag full) 🙈

We decided to make playdough and use the dye for this and here js the outcome of our blueberry dye this pretty purple playdough - we added some lavender too which made it a nice calming activity for Lil 💜

What we used

💜 Bag of expired frozen...

If you've been following us for awhile you may remember our butterfly playdough stamps we made awhile ago 🦋

We pulled them out again this morning and tried a bit of paint dipping in some watercolors and it worked a treat 👌

🌿 Stamps 🌿

Slices of tree branch (our neighbour was popping from tree branches from their gardening out on green waste so we asked if we could have some for some craft projects) 🌳

You can often find thick fallen branches like this anywhere 🌳

We sliced the branches into little discs perfect for Lily's little hands to grip ✊

Using our hot glue...

A little dirt never hurt - Lily loves mud...

Muddy puddles, mud cakes, mud coffees, mud sliding, and making mud castles! 

We made mud animals and candles!

Is anyone elses child obsessed with blowing out candles? 😅 I think it reminds Lily of her favourite days which just so happen to be birthdays 🎉

What we used:

🌿 Flowers from the garden
🌿 Twigs, bark, stones, feather for our deer tail
🌿 Dirt, flour, salt and water

Simply mix all these ingredients together we used a cup of salt, two cups of flour and Lily enjoyed rolling the rest in the mud!

Add your...

These little garden fairies wewere so simple to make! 🌻🌿

What we used:

🌿 Hot Glue gun
🌿 Fallen Banksia pods
🌿 Gumnuts
🌿 Sea shells
🌿 flowers for the halos and lips
🌿 Amethyst and Jade crystal chips for around the neck

It's as simple as gluing all your peices together! 👌

Instead of the crystal chips you could use small pebbles, more flowers or leave it as is we added the chips as we got a little too happy with the glue gun and needed to cover it up with something 😅💕