Mini Tarps
Get your sticks find a tea towel & some ropes and head out into the back yard. We are making mini tarps for our stuffed animal friends with the always wonderful Lee Cook.
Krystal
Backyard Party Decorations
An Invitation to Create We’re going to make some decorations for our backyard tea party! You can make decorations to hang from trees or maybe in your yard it would be better to make a garland. For a garland you will need: Long piece of thick string strips of fabric ribbons (optional) Attach the strips … Read more
Balloon Painting
This is a collection of a few ideas I’ve seen around the net. Hanging balloons to paint is in and of itself a unique, simple and super fun idea! The second piece of string securing the balloons to the ground came from Meredith at Homegrown Friends and the bird cage came from Piika Street melded … Read more
Backyard Tea Party
Is there somewhere special in your yard where you can have a tea party? Who might you want to come to your party? Would you decorate? Set a table? Put out a blanket? Let’s make a very special place in your yard where you will host your party. Can you gather some things? picnic/outdoor blanket … Read more
Signs of Spring
Spring is about to burst into blossom and bloom downtown here where I live. The city streets are full of buds and blossoms are beginning to emerge. Warmth is in the air and jackets are scattered in the yard. Seems the perfect time of year to begin collecting colourful treasures to play and create with. … Read more
Tipi Tent
Would you like to learn how to make a very easy house for your rabbit or a fairy out of sticks? You will need: 3 or more straight sticks of the same length A pipe cleaner or two Extra things to decorate your house First let’s practice wrapping. Hold out your two fingers and wrap the … Read more
Nature Journals
There are lots of ways to make a nature journal and reasons why you should. You will need: I made nature journals out of box flaps but this led to very irregular and randomly sized journals which meant I couldn’t cut one size of paper and that I wasted a lot of paper trying to … Read more
A Frame Stick House
Let’s continue our practice building houses for fairies and gnomes and see if we can’t build something a little bit bigger so they can have some friends over. You will need: 4 sticks the same length 1 stick a bit longer than the others 5-8 pipe cleaners soft ground a small blanket or piece of … Read more
Stick Sculptures
What can you make out of sticks? The first thing to figure out is how to attach sticks to each other. This is a puzzle for you to solve. Here are some ideas: Pipe cleaners to wrap around the sticks Wire wrapping Playdough or plastercine to ‘stick‘ the sticks Yarn or string to tie them … Read more
Tips and Tricks for Art at Home
Yes Space If you are going to set your child loose with glue and paint and other messy things you are probably going to want to prepare for the inevitable mess that will ensue. I call this creating a “Yes space” because it helps me get into a more open frame of mind that invites … Read more