Our Nature Collage Play Date

The buddies and I met our friends at a park this morning to play and to make nature collages. After some fun on the playscapes, we read "Leaf Man", a lovely children's book by Lois Ehlert. Ace loved all the photographs of creatures made out of leaves. Ben wanted to run around on the tennis courts but obliged me by standing at the back of our group until the end of the story. When we finished the book, each child received a brown paper sack and set off for our nature walk. They collected leaves, sticks, small stones, and feathers.

Heavy winds prevented us from creating our masterpieces at the park, so we packed up our nature treasures, construction paper, glue dots, and googly eyes and created our projects at home. It was our first play date where the kids took home "homework". :) Ace and Ben's nature collages turned out great!




Ben's nature collage ----->

I like how he covered his twig with googly eyes. It's kind of creepy.








<---- Ace's nature collage. He chose a more traditional eye placement.