​Spring Crafts

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Easter/ Spring Equinox

• Birds nest using dried grass or cleavers. 

• Clay eggs rolled in flour. 

• Clay eggs dried and painted and hung around the garden as a finding game.

• Egg shells painted and glued to paper/card as a collage.

• Clay birds using feathers.

• Natural print easter eggs

• Dying Eggs

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Flowers/ leaves/ sticks

• Hape zome (plant printing) with fresh leaves and flowers. 

• Magic wands (sticks with wool/leaves/ ribbon hanging from it tied on or with making tape)

• leaf printing (paint the back of leaves and use as a stamp/ print on stones/ fabric/ card. 

• Daffodils (made from egg boxes pained yellow and taped to a stick)

• Painting with dandelions, using them as a paintbrush with natural paint on to paper or fabric.

• Rushes cut into tiny parts (glue onto card/ fabric to make designs.)

• Rushes/ bull rushes/ reeds used as beads using a darning needle.

• Seed planting.

• Painting with dandelions, using them as a paintbrush with natural paint on to paper or fabric.

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Bugs

• Bug Hunt using magnifying glasses.

• Bug hotel repair.

• Caterpillar and butterfly (masking tape stuck on to a stick backward then add small leaves/petals first to make a caterpillar, have them munch around the garden then add big leaves to turn into a butterfly.)

• Worms made from soil/ clay.

• Worm holes/houses for them to live in.  

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Games

• Sleeping fawn game (faun freezes and wolf come to find and makes them move/laugh, tenth fawn becomes a wolf)

• Bird nest game (baby birds make a nest then they fly around having fun when they hear mama shout food they have to run back to the nest. )

• Swallow and Midge game (Like stuck in the mud but swallows after the midges.)

• Watching out for the bird’s swallows/cuckoos returning.

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Foraging

• Make spring nettle tea or soup. 

• Nettle/ spinach/ cleaver/ wild garlic pesto.

• Cleaver Juice.

• Sorel salad

• Dandelion lemonade

• Dandelion fritters.

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