How to Make a Kid's Nature Walk Collage

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Looking for something to do with the kids?
A Nature Walk can take care of several things at once. Teach, exercise, healthy
and creative.
I'm going to tell how to make a Nature Walk Collage.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

construction paper
glue
scissors
things from the nature walk
a basket or bag

Step 1

Child with a basket; ( How to take Kids on a Nature Walk)

OK..Give each child a basket. They can use this to put things in that are interesting to them.
You can talk about each item on the nature walk, as they put them in the basket.
Why do they like it? How does it feel to them? What does it do? What color is it? So on and so on.
Step 2

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Bring all the stuff back to the house.
Have a little snack and something to drink.
Clean up the table. Spread newspaper out over the table.
Get out your craft supplies kit.
Put the kids treasures on the table.
Lay out out a sheet of construction paper, of their choose, for each child.
Step 3

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Have each child glue their nature walk finds on the construction paper.
Show them that they can overlay the pieces.
Encourage them to cut other pieces of different color paper onto the first sheet of paper.
They can even use pictures from magazines, that they associate with their finds.
They can glue leaves, twigs, weeds, snake skins, feathers and even small pebbles onto the paper.
Step 4

toad in child's hands

When they are done you can talk about their experiences on the nature walk.
Ask them what they learned.
Hang their collages on the refrigerators or wherever.

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Susanh said

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on 6/12/2009 This is a great idea! Children love to get into God's creation around them. Photos of the children on the walk might be nice within the collage too. :)