Welcome to Nature Play Friday: A place to discover fun ways to get your kids playing in and with nature.
This week is a salute to the humble stick.
1. Journey Sticks
From Children and Nature Network Connect
2. Make a campfire
From Preschool Daze
A pretend camp fire:
3. Make a basket out of sticks and playdough
Make a flat pancake out of the playdough for the base
Lay down a layer of sticks over the pancake
Add first layer of playdough for the top part of the basket
Alternate with a layer of sticks
Press down in between
Voila - a stick and playdough basket!
4. Build a teepee
5. Sawing sticks
We sawed up sticks we collected:
and then we
6. Painted sticks
Now we have a basket full of painted sticks
which we will use to:
7. Make snakes
or
8. Make stick sculptures
rather like this idea with tape and string and wood glue
From Preschool Daze
except imagine sticks instead of wood pieces
For more ideas on things to do with sticks:
- 60 Nature Play Ideas @ The Imagination Tree
- A Stick is an Excellent Thing
- Painted Sticks @ Little Wonder Days
How funny, I've been using a lot of sticks lately! My girls came up with 13 Things to Do with a Stick and then we were inspired by Teacher Tom and the glue gun to make sculptures.
ReplyDeleteI can see we'll have to move on to including other things, they look like lots of fun.
Fun post! Thanks for the great links.
ReplyDeletelooks like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI'm loving all of these ideas Jenny. Hmmm ... there's something about sticks I really love and there are some really cool ideas here THANKS!
ReplyDeleteDonna :) :)
What a great set of ideas!!
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