Summer Crafts

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Flowers / leaves

• Natural painting and natural paint brushes.

• Dry flowers used for pictures on paper/card or glued on wood cookies.

• Flower mosaic (glued to card/paper)

• Flower, leaf, shell, mandala on the ground.

• Willow crowns with flowers added.

• Cleaver crowns with flowers added.

• Hape Zome (wildflower prints/ flags)

• Garlands (strings of flowers and leaves)

• Painted leaves.

• Leaf rubbing

• Daisy chains.

• Fern printing (cover ferns with paint and use to make prints on paper/ fabric/ wood.

• Nature Bracelets (masking tape on backwards)

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May/ Bealtaine celebrations

• May Bush or may alter, collect hawthorn flowers.

• May pole with ribbons, decorated daily. (may pole song)

• Flower picking and put into baskets, procession around the woods with the Queen of  the may.

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Games/ Activities

• Obisana song and game, (Obisana stop and pick a blue flower.)

• Water fun, what floats and what doesn’t.

• Cleaver stick back game, attach a cleaver to someone’s back and everyone has to catch it, person who catches it attaches it to their back.  

• Twig boats (made with sticks and string/ masking tape)

• Make a sundial (sing a sick stuck in the ground and stones around it to observe the shadows. 

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Bugs

• Bumble Bee/ ladybird painted stones 

• Hape zome Buterflies.

• Ash key / sycamore key dragonflies glued to twigs.

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Forage

• Cleaver juice. Using a pestle and mortar mash up cleaver with water and strain through a bunch of dry cleavers to drink or use as paint.

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