This week's fun activity... Nature Thread Boards

Nature amazes us every day with beautiful flowers and colors all year long.   This week, we'll borrow some natural colors and explore making creative designs with a fun, reusable, decorative Thread Board!

Materials: Cardboard Scissors Hole Punch or Pencil Point Flowers and Leaves

Step 1 - Cut Start with a piece of cardboard and cut it into whatever shape you’d like.   An arch for a rainbow, a wreath, or free form shapes are all wonderful options.  BE CREATIVE! Make your shape large enough to fit enough your flowers.

Step 2 - Make Holes Punch holes throughout your cardboard shape.   If you’re making a rainbow, follow the curves of your arches to match the colored lines of a real rainbow.   If you don’t have a hole punch, use the point of a pencil to poke through the cardboard.

Step 3 – Collect Flowers Head outside into your yard and collect some colorful flowers and leaves!   When you pick flowers or leaves, leave an inch or two of stem attached so that it will stay “threaded” in your board. Dandelions make excellent threading flowers!

Step 4 - Decorate Place your flowers and leaves on your cardboard shape and thread the stems through the holes.   Decorate your board with your different colors and be creative!

Step 5 – Reuse Whenever you want a new design, simply remove the flowers and add new ones!    Create new color and texture combinations as much as often as you wish. Show off your creative art - display it for friends and family to enjoy!

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