Activity Steps
1. Suggest taking a walk around your neighbourhood to collect
nature's treasures your child might find
2. Give her a bag or basket to put small items in as you go -
things like pretty colored leaves and flowers or weeds, a special rock,
different kinds of nuts and seeds, feathers, etc.
3. Back home look at each item, talk about each one, decide
where it might have come from, how it could be used to nourish animals or trees
or grass, what people might do with the item, etc.
4. Using the empty cereal box make a display case for your
treasures - glue the cover shut and cover the box with plain paper - carefully
cut one large side out and reinforce any week parts with tape inside the empty
shell
5. Ask your child to decorate the sides of the display case with
markers or crayons
6. Glue your collected treasures inside the box - put the
heavier ones on or near the bottom and the lighter ones higher in the box
7. When finished place your treasure box in an appropriate place
to show others as they come to your home
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