Nature Box Activity
Last week here at Nature For Kids we talked about a great nature craft for kids…a nature box.
Here is a quick photo journal of how my kids and I made our nature box.
We found an old fishing tackle box in our garage that wasn’t being used.
I laid out all the magazines I could find and let them cut away with the stipulation that it had to be something they could find outside that wasn’t manmade.
I took the pictures they cut out and made a collage, gluing them onto the box with a simple glue stick.
The kids painted mod podge over the pictures giving it a nice finished look that will also help it last a long time.
The kids went and gathered their collection of nature stuff that has been kept in random places all over our house. They divided the squares up, saying whose was whose and put the items inside. As you can see we still have plenty of room.
Items in our nature box: pressed leaves, shells from the river, dried juniper seeds (ghost beads), feathers and coal.
If you don’t want to do this craft for kids while the weather is still nice enough to play outside save it to use as a rainy day activity. We surely have more rainy days to come in the future.
This nature box activity can be done in several different ways. Just use your imagination. As you can see our nature box is much different than the one I spoke about earlier on the post “Nature Box“.
Have fun with this and please, please, please email your nature box pictures to Nature For Kids by emailing me at shawna@natureforkids.net! I’d love to see how different everyone’s turn out to be!
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Nature Box
You know kids…they naturally want to stack things, jump off things and collect things! Here at Nature For Kids we’re going to talk about the later of the “things”.
My son has a special box he keeps his collections in. We started out with a tiny tin box but had to upgrade to a larger shoebox size. I constantly have to remind him to weed out the less important things that find their way in there. If he could he’d have a whole room dedicated to his collection. But since our house is only 1600 sq ft. I think you’ll agree that his collection must be secluded to one specific area.
After a summer of exploring outside we have quite the collection of sticks, rocks and shells. Green Hour , one of my favorite outdoor web sites, gave a great idea for what to do with a collection of outdoor items…a Nature Box.
I went to Google image search and typed in “nature box”. These pictures caught my eye…
Tami at Joyful Noise made this appealing nature box with her kids. It’s an old jewelry box. They decoupaged nature pictures on the top and then filled it with all sorts of nature goodies, including an impressive collection of egg rocks.
I’m so excited about this idea that my kids and I will be doing ourselves really soon. I’ll post some pictures here at Nature For Kids once our nature box is finished!
Some other ideas I came across include a nature table. Just lay it out for all to see. A secret outdoor stashing place is fun too. Just put your items under a tree or in a secluded spot.
How do you display or keep your nature collection? Share your thoughts here at Nature For Kids.
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