Button Tree

Materials:

• A3 white cardboard paper
• Brightly coloured buttons
• Brown paint
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Use the brown paint to paint the tree trunk and branches.
2. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the buttons.

Natural Sunflower

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• Large piece of white cardboard paper - A3 size or bigger
• Yellow poster paint
• Sunflower seeds
• Leaves
• Brown crayon
• Green crayon
• White craft glue
• Pom-pom (optional)
• Button (optional)

Method:

1. Paint a large sunflower on the cardboard and leave to dry.
2. Once dried, spread white craft glue in the middle of the sunflower and sprinkle sunflower seeds.
3. Draw the stem and a leaf - you can also substitute these for the actual things!!
4. Harley (3 years) and Scarlett (2 years) decided that their sunflower needed bees and used a pom-pom and button to depict this.

Natural Tree

This is a really nice activity to get children outdoors, even if only for a short while. 

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• A4 white cardboard paper
• Brown crayon
• Different types of leaves
• Flower petals
• Blades of grass
• Pritt glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Go into your garden and pick different types of leaves - I got hold of 6 different types.
2. Pick a small, brightly coloured flower.
3. With scissors, cut off a few blades of grass.
4. Use the brown crayon to draw a tree trunk and some branches - as you can see, I am no artist!!
5. Using normal Pritt glue, glue the leaves onto the branches, the blades of grass individually at the bottom of the tree trunk and the flower petals on the other side.