Spring Crafts

We updated our nature table last week with this lovely little scene that the kids helped me with. I got the idea from a new magazine called Living Crafts. It's all natural crafts and I love it. There's a little story in the magazine to accompany the figures, so after we wet felted the tulips and made the grandmother, fairy mother, and little fairy babies, we read the story together. It helped a lot to have the story to go with it to motivate us, and it was incredibly easy to make. I let the kids play with a bowl of soapy water and bits of wool while I did the wet felting because they weren't really interested in making something specific.The wool butterfly idea came from the same magazine. Kai is, of course, holding a jet he folded. That's the only craft he really loves to do. I think I may get him an origami book for his birthday. I think he's folded every type of airplane there is. He says a fairy comes to him at night and shows him her book of designs and then he wakes up and makes them. He does know exactly what he's doing as he folds them and makes some remarkable designs. He says he was a jet airplane engineer in his past life and had paper airplanes and model airplanes hanging all over his office (he also says he took all 10 of his children to work with him). I believe him!

Tomorrow we are going to plant wheatgrass in eggshells, blow eggs and decorate them, and go out and buy a few seeds and take a walk in Shelter Garden to see if we can spot any new plants and flowers coming up.