Summer Play Inspiration - Play with Flowers and Plants

This week's  Share & Play on our Facebook page  (every Wednesday with a new theme)  brought lots of wonderful ideas how to use and reuse natural finds like flowers, plants and parts of plants for fun and learning playtime to lives of our tots! Here are collected all the links to these posts and we surely hope you'll have lots of fun recreating these activities with your toddlers at home!

Flowers

Flower art box by The Artful Parent

Suggestions and guide to Drying Flowers by PlanetPals.com

Dandelion picking by Hands on: as we grow

Creating butterflies garden by Sun Hat & Wellie Boots

Sorting flowers by Leptir Montessori Blog

Color walk by Living Montessori Now

Plants

Making art from nature finds by Mom to 2 Posh Divas

Fun art by Putti Prapancha

Woodland people by Red Ted Art

also check:

Leaf family by Putti Prapancha

Natural faces from Putti Prapancha

Using plants in recreating desert by Playful Learners

Making sunflower print and natural dye by Sun Hats & Wellie Boots

Growing beans by Leptir Montessori Blog

Fun with sunflower seeds by Leptir Montessori Blog

For more summer play inspiration check out earlier round up posts with play ideas with natural mediums:

water

sand and dirt

rocks

twigs and branches

shells

And, join us next Wednesday on our Facebook page! 

We'll have new topic:

Share & Play - Making Art Outdoors!

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Summer Play Inspiration - Play with Shells

Again this week we had another  Share & Play on our Facebook page Wednesday fun sharing day and the theme was summer fun playing with shells - so, if you have some laying around your home or you're planning to go to the vacation this year somewhere near beach, hope these will come handy! As usual, many wonderful ideas were shared and today, we'll share these ideas with all of you here so you can take a look and recreate some of these ideas at home with your own toddlers:

Shells in fairy garden by Nurture Store

Adding shells to nature baskets by Nurture Store

Lots of fun ideas with shells over at PlanetPals.com

Painting shells at Paint Cut Paste

Shell garland from Paint Cut Paste

Beach treasure mobile also from Paint Cut Paste

Creating fish pool with shells over at Creatiivity My Passion

Using shells as counters (and other Montessori ideas) by Living Montessori Now

Land art by Smiling Like Sunshine

And check

Ocean in the bag by Seeds Network

For more summer play inspiration check out earlier round up posts with play ideas with natural mediums:

water

sand and dirt

rocks

twigs and branches

And, join us next Wednesday on our Facebook page! 

We'll have new topic:

Share & Play - Leaves, Plants & Flowers!

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Summer Play Inspiration - Play with Twigs and Branches

This week's topic for Share & Play on our Facebook page was summer fun playing with twigs and branches - something you can find everywhere in the nature, making this medium available and cheap for crafts and arts. Many wonderful ideas were shared and today, we'll share these ideas with all of you here so you can take a look and recreate some of these ideas at home with your own toddlers:

Stick men by Red Ted Art

Creating pictures with leaves and sticks by Putti Prapancha

Tin can forest by Hands on: as we grow

Twig vases by Paint Cut Paste

Driftwood mobiles by Paint Cut Paste (3 versions!)

Organic art by Living Montessori Now

Bird Nests by Seeds Idea Network

Gratitude tree by Nurture Store

Fairy Loom by Paint Cut Paste

Fairy garden by Nurture Store

Additional ideas by Rachele from Messy Kids who says: " Branches always become swords in our household. I personally prefer painting with them :) Also roasting hotdogs and marshmallows over a campfire." 

For more summer play inspiration check out earlier round up posts with play ideas with natural mediums:

water

sand and dirt

rocks

And, join us next Wednesday on our Facebook page! 

We'll have new topic:

Share & Play - Shells!

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Summer Play Inspiration - Play with Rocks

This week's topic for Share & Play on our Facebook page was summer fun playing with rocks. There were many great suggestions how to turn this everyday, everywhere available natural item in creative ways to make playtime with toddlers more interesting and fun. Today, we'll share these ideas with all of you here so you can take a look and recreate some of these ideas at home with your own toddlers!

Painting rocks can turn them to:

Little works of art (suggested by Planetpals.com)

Nursery rhyme prompts (idea shared by Red Ted Art)

Ghost stones (shared by Red Ted Art)

Pet stones (idea shared by Paint Cut Paste)

Little ladybugs (shared by Mom to 2 Posh Divas)

Blarney stones for St.Patric's day (shared by Paint Cut Paste)

Stones turned little gifts, usable objects or everyday treasures ideas:

Tissue rock paperweight (idea by Planetpals.com)

Stone plant markers (idea by Red Ted Art)

Thumbprint rock magnets (shared by Paint Cut Paste)

Rock picture holders (idea by Paint Cut Paste)

For more summer play inspiration check out earlier round up posts with play ideas with natural mediums:

water

sand and dirt

And, join us next Wednesday on our Facebook page! 

We'll have new topic:

Share & Play - Twigs & Branches!

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