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Textured Painting with Nature's Paint Brushes

"Textured Painting - Natures Paint Brushes" This is not just art, but art in nature! Go on a nature walk to gather 'schtuff!' Then use what you gather to create art or As art!

fairy soup - happy hooligans - outdoor sensory activities for kids My kids love this kind of play!

Fairy Soup Sensory Play Activity

fairy soup - happy hooligans - outdoor sensory activities for kids. This is also a free activity you could consider mentioning to parents; a trip to the local park and then play at home. Also called a messy mixture, or "perfume making"

Clay Faces: Taking Art Outdoors. Make a face by pressing clay onto a tree. The forest floor provides a wealth of materials to add to the clay sculptures: sticks, fir cones, leaves, pine needles.

Clay sculptures at the Just So festival

A fantastic outdoor art idea that makes great use of loose parts found in a forest: clay faces on tree trunks! Links to lots of outdoor and craft ideas :)

Nature and shadow- what if we take out the paints and paint in the lines….?

DIY Drawing and tracing using shadows: great craft/art for kids too. "Nature and shadow- what if we take out the paints and paint in the lines…."… great idea for tracing. Take a quick pic then don't have to worry about sun changing places.

Exploring the great outdoors during the Camping Buddies theme leaves lots of time to create nature crafts! These are some great ideas on what you can build with the things you find around you. #preschool #ecoart

Make an owl mask and make bugs from items found on a nature hike. craft for Apologia Flying Creatures. bugs crafts, easy crafts, easy crafts for kids, nature crafts, crafts from nature

Mini beast collages made with garden bits :)
Counting and Grouping with Sticks. Playful Maths ... just like forest school

Counting and Grouping with Sticks. Playful Maths

Stick Man making in Forest School.
Ice art- also love this idea for the forest school.

Ice art- also love this idea for the forest school. Would be perfect for summer!

Data handling - with Autumn leaves!

collecting leaves and graphing them Children will collect leaves on a nature walk. Children will graph leaves based on color.

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