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Consider this:
Taking a walk in nature can reduce stress and improve our mood. A walk in nature can also lead to increased creativity, concentration and improve our attention spans. Talking a walk in the woods can provide natural treasures for fun crafting adventures.
- Pinecones
- Pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes
- Craft glue or hot glue and glue gun
- Foam sheets, craft paper, scrap paper
- Scissors
- Markers
- Twigs, rocks, and/or other nature items
- Real Mammal, Insect, Reptile
- Squirrel
- Bee
- Salmon
- And so much more
- Monsters
- Dinosaurs
- Imaginary critters
- Cut any foam or paper pieces carefully with scissors
- Cut pipe cleaners to needed lengths
- Gather eyes, twigs, etc.
Glue together the pinecones to create the basic shape of your critter’s body, and head.
- Create wings, arms, ears, fins
- Attach pieces to your pinecone base with glue
- Pine cones only come from pine trees
- The job of a pinecone is to keep a pine tree’s seeds safe
- Pinecones close their scales to protect the seeds from cold temperatures, wind and animals
- When temperatures are warm the scales open to release the seeds
- Pinecones can stay on a tree for 2 to 10 years, before falling to the ground
- Squirrels, birds and other forest creatures eat the seeds from pinecones
- Humans can eat some pinecone seeds, and pinecones, but not all
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