The world around you is full of things... that can become new things!
This week, go for a walk around your neighbourhood or home, and collect sticks, stones and leaves to complete this weeks challenges...
Because Mother's Day is coming up, this week has a few ideas that could make good gifts for mum - but you can also do them just for fun!
This week, go for a walk around your neighbourhood or home, and collect sticks, stones and leaves to complete this weeks challenges...
Because Mother's Day is coming up, this week has a few ideas that could make good gifts for mum - but you can also do them just for fun!
Junior Guides (5-10 Years)
Turn some stones into games! Get 10 stones, and paint an X on half, and an O on the other half. Now you have your own set of noughts and crosses to play with! Have an even amount of stones or leaves (that all look similar in shape and size). Put coloured dots, small shapes or even little pictures on half, and then copy these on the other half. Now you have a memory game to play! Create something fun. Paint stones and sticks green, and add small white or grey dots and lines to make little cacti. Get a small plant pot and fill the bottom with stones, and then arrange your succulent garden! Photo holders (Potential Gift) Decorate a stone with whatever patterns you like. When it's dry, use a piece of stiff, but bendable wire to wrap around the stone. Let the tail pop up, and swirl it so it looks like a key chain. Print out a photo, and squeeze it in the swirl on top - now you have a cute, decorative photo holder. |
Guides (10-14) and Senior Guides (14+)
1. Paint stones with messages of kindness and positivity. Place them around your neighbourhood for people to find. You can put an extra message on the back encouraging people to keep them, or hide them somewhere else for another person to find.
2. Yarn sticks and dream catchers
Arrange sticks in shapes and letters and attach them with small pieces of wool (use the clove hitch knot from last week, and lash it around the sticks to keep them together). Tightly wrap wool along the sticks and create patterns with different colours. For a dream catcher, make a circle with your sticks and tie them together. Wrap it tightly with wool. Run wool or string across the circle, making spiderweb patterns. Add in beads and bells on the web. You can also add dangling wool-wrapped sticks, feathers and leaves. Try to make fun patterns with your spider web. See what kind of patterns you can make, and share your finished dream catcher! Candle holder (Potential Gift)
Get a short glass, and use hot glue to attach sticks along the sides. You can make a "forest look" by having the sticks run vertically (up and down) on the glass. If you make the sticks run horizontally (going across) it will look like a small birds nest. You can paint the sticks before or after sticking them on for extra decoration. When it is dry, place a tealight in the glass, and there you have a tea light holder! Tip: Try and find a glass that isn't very curvy, as this will make it harder to get the sticks to stay. If you want to make a "nest", you will need to use sticks that are bendy as drier sticks will snap. |
Extend the Challenge!What do you think you can make with only sticks, stones and other assorted leaf littler? Try and create something amazing, with only your natural supplies, paint, hot glue and wool/string, try and create something out of the box! Ideas include... A crown A lampshade Silhouettes or animal statues Bird feeders What else can you create? |
Other Activities
Writing Prompt:
The tallest man in the world has just gotten on the bus with you, but then something happens and you, the tallest man in the world and the bus driver get stuck. Why did you get stuck? What do you do? How do you save the world this time?
The tallest man in the world has just gotten on the bus with you, but then something happens and you, the tallest man in the world and the bus driver get stuck. Why did you get stuck? What do you do? How do you save the world this time?
Knot of the week: Bowline
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