Look closely! Can you see something camouflaged in the gravel?

I made a story basket with Little Nutbrown Hare!

Now Little Nutbrown Hare has found a basket too!

Sometimes, at Nature School, we would sit on the stumps and look closely at something together.  Even though we are all looking from home, I imagined what it would be like to be all together.  I am setting up the materials so you can remember and imagine as well!

Look closely! I gathered together tulips and daffodils to make a bouquet.  Would you like to paint or draw these flowers?

If you don’t have watercolours at home, you can make some paint from your felt pens!

First, test your markers.  Some might still be good for drawing, some might be dried up and ready to make into paint.

Next, sort your markers into groups of colours. Save the lids for counting, sorting, making designs, or to use with play dough!

Add some water to each jar of colours – let the markers sit in the water for as long as you can, even a few days!  The longer the markers soak, the stronger your paint colours will be.

Now you can draw a bouquet of flowers, or maybe some eggs, using the wet marker or by dipping a brush into the jar of water.  The colours will mix and blend to make new colours.

When you are finished, don’t tip away the water! You can let the water evaporate, and use the dried pigment at the bottom of the jar again and again, just add a little fresh water. Now that’s reducing, re-using and recycling! Even though we are not at school, we can still be creative, we can still find colours,  and we can still share beauty with others. Thinking of you all this joyous weekend, Love Kate