After making our aussie bush garland we also made some ocean creatures - which is why we started collecting the gumnuts, jacaranda pods and leaves in the first place.
On one of our walks we noticed that the jacaranda pods looked like stingrays. We then decided to hunt for more things that could resemble an ocean creature {since that is our theme at the moment} and worked out that leaves could look like eels or sea snakes and gumnuts could look like jellyfish or octopus.
We just glued googly eyes onto the jacaranda pods and the leaves.
The octopus / jellyfish are a little more difficult, involving flooding the inside with glue...
and placing cut up twine in the glue and allowing it to dry {preferably upright, so the glue doesn't run out of the gumnut}. And then afterwards, glueing some googly eyes on.
Noah had a lot of fun with cutting up the twine himself, and then stuffing the gumnut full of glue.
All the while Chloe just made a mess with the googly eyes.
We then made a little tissue paper ocean for them, complete with seaweed {cut up green felt strips} and a paper rock to hide under.
Do you see any aussie bush ocean creatures in your future?
x
Posts
They are adorable. Thanks for sharing. x
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! Jacaranda pod sting rays? Who would have thought!
ReplyDeletewonderful idea!
ReplyDeleteholy moly, those jacaranda pods really *do* look like stingrays!
ReplyDeleteLovely.
ReplyDeleteI have just come across your blog and have spent the last few days doing alot of your craft.
I am just wondering if you would be able to do a blog on your iphone, an tell us what apps you have and why. What are the best. What you recommend and if you have any for the kids. Would be a big he;p as i have just got a iphone but dont know what apps to get. Would be veru happy if you could.
Thanks, Shell.
Hi Shell, thanks so much for the suggestion! I will definitely share some of our favourite apps soon! x
ReplyDeleteBianca,
ReplyDeleteThat will be awesome looking forward to it :)
Also was wondering do you keep all your kids clothes that outgrow or do you store them somewhere?
Thanks again. Shell