Summer Nature Collecting and Collages

 May 2013: We ventured outside one sunny morning to do a little nature collecting. We returned with our findings and used them to make a nature collage on bright yellow paper. I originally wanted the girls to think a bit more "outside the box" and use the flowers, leaves etc. to create a different image such as a face or an animal, but they wanted to use them to create a nature scene--pretty much a replica of right where we collected them. But in the end I think they turned out really well and they had fun imagining all of these separate plants growing together as one new plant. So, not exactly what I had in mind but they really loved collecting and creating with the natural materials which was the goal anyways.