I love the work by landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy. It really draws together two things that I love… nature and art. This piece of art was parcially inspired by Goldsworthy.
I absolutely loved working on this art piece with a lovely group of children (aged 4-8). It was wonderful to get their input in how the art should look and it was amazing to see their respect for the work they were creating.
I wanted the children to be able to get on and create and not to spend the majority of our time collecting resources to make our art. I collected a load of leaves, sticks the day before and raided our home of all collections of cones, conkers, acorns etc… and also asked others to bring along some resources.
We began by raking out the area so we could begin work. We then created the shape of the star and the heart.
The children soon became interested and got creative with the leaves, cones etc… One of the children suggested we added an I, so the picture became ‘I love stars’
The small star was especially susceptible to being knocked and had to be re-made many times. It was lovely to see that whenever it got knocked one of the children would rush to fix it.
We gave the ground a final rake before our piece was finished, this really helped create a good contrast between the ground and the art.
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I love the colour separation on this. A great way to enjoy nature on a non windy autumn day #FabFridayLinky
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Ou yes, imagine if it had been a windy day!
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Amazing job!! Such creativity!!
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Thanks Jodie. It was great to see the creativity of the children 👶
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What a fun idea! I never would have thought to do something like this, but it looks like so much fun! You created some really beautiful work out of nature. Thanks for sharing!
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It was lots of fun doing it as part of a group.
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Oh my gosh! What a cool idea! We will have to try this some time at our nature school. I’m sure it will be a big hit! #fabfridaypost
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Nature School sounds wonderful 🙂
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That is such a neat idea! I love this. Pinning!!
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Awww thanks 🙂
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I love this idea, thank you for sharing it on my #rawchildhood tag on instagram, it was one of my favourites for October 🙂 #fabfridaypost
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Thanks for sharing it Jade 🙂
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Hi, what a fantastic idea what a great way for all ages to be creative with nature #fabfridaypost
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I really loved the way everyone took part 🙂
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Wow! This is so lovely! Move over Andy Goldsworthy – these youngsters are next!! 🙂 x #FabFridayPost
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Indeed, they worked so hard!
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I absolutely love this an dwant to do it immediately! I may have to get out early! Definitely a weekend event with the littles, weather permitting! FAB! #FabFridayPost xoxo
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Hope you managed this one!!
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This looks fabulous!!! What a great idea! My daughter loves creating art pieces on the beach, etc. I’ll show her this 😉
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We loved making it. I can imagine an art piece at a beach would look fabulous. I’m imagining shells and mounds of sand!
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