Nature Walk Crafts

Hands up who loves Autumn??

ME!!

I love the colours of the leaves, the crisp air, the due drops on the spider weds and the beautiful jewels that mothers natures brings with her in Autumn.

We collect conkers, acorns, leaves and pine cones when ever we get a chance. The kids love searching for the biggest ones and we really enjoyed making things with our latest finds.

This is just one example of what you can do with Nature walk/scavenger hunt finds. If your looking for something to help the creative juices going on your walks check out me FREE Autumn scavenger hunt printable {here}. 

We made these little guys using some of what we found. Acorns, chestnuts and matches. You could use toothpicks if you don't have matches. I used a metal skewer to make the holes first to make it easier for the match sticks to go in. Then we drew the faces on with a sharpie. We had hours of fun making all kinds of things. 

Now, go get your wellies on and get outside with your little ones and start collecting.

Adventure awaits!

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Popsicle Stick Scarecrow {Autumn craft}

Happy Hump Day Friends!

I've got another quick and easy craft here for you today. I love working with popsicle sticks. They're so easy to use. Not too fiddly for little ones either. We've made a Christmas Crib {here} using them too. But today we're working on an autumn scarecrow.

You will need:

cardboard

8 fat popsicle sticks

glue

jewels

coloured paper

paint

scissors

Cut a piece of card a little shorter than your sticks.

Glue 7 of the sticks onto the card.

Cut stripes of the coloured paper to look like hair.

Glue this to the ends of the last stick.

Take the last stick and glue it on top of the other at an angle to look like a hat.
Paint your hat brown or whatever colour your little heart desires.

Cut out the eyes and nose and glue them down.

Cut out a flower shape and glue in place with a coloured jewel.

Draw on a big smile and your done.

You can out these on a book shelf or a window sill but I'm going to stick some magnets to the back of mine and put the on the fridge.

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Tissue Paper Trees {autumn craft}

Hello Friends!!

Hope your all enjoying this lovely Autumn weather. I'm certainly enjoying the crisp, fresh air the this time of year brings. I've got another quick and simple craft to keep you little ones busy on the evenings. Have you noticed that the evenings are getting shorter??

We love the Autumn colours and what better why to show them off then with a lovely autumn tree. 

You will need: 

Glue

Coloured Tissue

Drawing paper

Crafty kid

Draw the outline of a tree on an A4 page.

Get your child to tear up the tissue paper. This was the favourite part for my little man. 

Then start gluing the pieces to the paper.

It's that simple.

Crafts don't have to be complicated to be fun and if your kids are having fun, that's the most important thing. Right??

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