Celebrating Thanksgiving:
An Autumn Bouquet
This is a perfect project when studying autumn, the seasons, or trees and plants. It could also be good for a life cycle study, illustrating the idea that things are still beautiful at the end of the life cycle and still serve a purpose.
Supplies:
Look for lots of natural, dried plants for your arrangement. You can use dried seed heads, stalks, wheat, ferns, grasses, etc. Just be careful to not pick plants that could give you a rash like poison oak or poison ivy … they do have pretty leaves but they come with lots of iches!
Self-Hardening Clay
Scissors
Directions:
1. Shape a handful of clay into a mound.
2 Trim any extra leaves from bottom of seed and weed stalks with scissors.
3. Stick the stems of your dried and trimmed plants into the clay mound.
4. Put the tallest in the center, then the next tallest, etc, ending with the small ones around them. As you work, make sure to keep everything looking even from all angles, but a little unevenness is interesting looking.
NOTE: Sometimes it helps to put a little white glue or craft glue onto the stems before you stick them into the clay.
Another craft to do in conjunction with this one is How to Preserve Leaves
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