Nature Prints
Well they were wrong-it didn’t rain.
It was another beautiful day.
So I didn’t get much done in the house again.
But this evening we did follow the artful parents nature prints idea. I bought some sculpey clay and rolled each block into four balls. Then with various bits and pieces of nature; leaves, sea shells, flowers, pine needles, nuts that we collected in the yard we made prints. We laid the bit or piece of nature down and placed the ball of sculpey on top of it and pushed down really hard. We then carefully peeled the object away.
These looked great before we baked them I followed the 250 degree oven for 45 mins recommendation but thought they looked a bit overdone.
I just so happened to have the perfectly cool, little, thrifted, watch boxes from India, to hold these.
These only cost a quarter by the way!!! This was a great easy no mess activity, that we will surely do again. Next time I think I may make holes in them before baking them and make a mobile with some sticks and twine.
No matter what the weather is tomorrow, it’s our busy day so the poor house will be neglected again. Maybe Friday.
i also wonder how it would work as a memento of a place – like checking the different kind of nature prints you could make at grandma’s house.
I love how they turned out…and I’m glad you got another sunny day instead of a rainy one. I love little surprises like that.
I gotta see if I can find sculpey here in France. Is it heavy? Maybe I can lug some back with me from the States.
It looks like you have the same shrub I do. Magnolia, right?