Take Your Pick – Garden Art
Garden Art Collage
If you’ve had a morning of exploring your backyard (or a local park) and collected a bunch of interesting things, what do you do with them all?! Here are a few easy ideas your toddler will love:
1. Make a collage. My daughter never gets tired of sticking bits of bark, leaves, feathers and twigs onto cardboard. Go figure. It costs next to nothing, takes up a good chunk of time, and you end up with an artwork that generally looks pretty good! PVA glue needed, so you’ll have to supervise this one closely. Alternatively try a playdough collage.
2. Make patterns. If you don’t have a whole lot to pick in your yard, this one might be for you. Your toddler will need to collect several of two items. Since the macadamia is a significant tree in our yard, we often collect nuts and leaves. Show your toddler how to make a simple repeating pattern – leaf, nut, leaf, nut…
"Look at my fairy garden Mummy!"
3. Make a ground picture. Not all art has to be kept! Another advantage of ground art is that you aren’t limited by the size of a page, or even the size of a table. You can make huge pictures outside on the ground (but small ones are fine too). Try making a person, or just a big face. Try making a mini city and bring some cars outside to drive through it. Or, like my day-dreamy daughter… make a fairy garden.
I love these ideas. I have never thought of doing a ground picture before!
Now that our baby chickens are getting their “big-girl” feathers, we are finding more fluff and striped feathers in the coop – they would be perfect additions to the “canvas”.
I really like that ground art idea! I think that would be perfect to do with my babes today – thanks!
@Michelle @Sarah Mae
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Glad you like the ground art idea! I love that there’s NO cleaning up required, and you don’t have to find somewhere to display the artwork. Just take a photo!
I totally agree with Michelle and Sarah Mae! This is a great solution to all the art we end up with for all the children! I can’t wait to try it!
Lovies,DJ
@DJ Let me know how it goes for you if you try it out!
I just came across your site and I really like your graphic at the top and that you list your top 5 posts, great idea.
@Marci_jo – thanks for your encouragement. My hubby did the graphic for me. If you’re into tech stuff check out his blog at http://distractable.net