Kid Craft Activity Idea #2: Nature Crafts for Kids

Spring is a glorious time to take nature walks. Visit your local museum, state park, or local wooded park with your kids and discover some great craft activities along the way.

Oftentimes, museums have the trees labeled with their names. Take along a notebook and jot down the name of the tree as you collect the leaves. If the trees aren’t labeled, this is a great opportunity to do some research once you get home! Your child can later press these leaves between the pages of a heavy book (between sheets of wax paper) and create a scrapbook. This was one project I did in junior high biology class and I kept that scrapbook around for many years!

Another nature craft idea is a nature bracelet. Take a piece of masking tape and put it around each child’s wrist with the sticky part facing out. As you’re walking, your kids can find small leaves, twigs, berries, maybe even dead bugs to stick to their wrists. Ok, maybe I wouldn’t encourage pasting dead bugs to their wrists, but you get the idea.

For some indoor nature-type of crafts, check out my website at www.childcrafter.com for bug soap, sticky bugs window stickers, and more craft kits for kids!