Last updated on April 6th, 2024 at 11:50 pm
Fun and engaging free craft projects using treasures you can find on a nature walk.
Explore birding with bird house and feeder projects, including attracting hummingbirds and butterflies with homemade nectar. Discover botanical crafts, bugs and insects, clay pot creations, fall-inspired crafts, and pine cone projects. And don’t forget to explore the beautiful possibilities of shells, sticks, and stones!
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced crafter, there’s something here for everyone. Let’s dive in and bring the magic of nature into our homes and gardens, one craft at a time.
Clay Pot Characters and Creatons
Create clay pot crafts, fall-inspired creations, and pine cone projects that capture the essence of the changing seasons. And let’s not forget the treasures waiting to be discovered in the simplest of natural elements—shells, sticks, and stones—each offering endless possibilities for crafting magic.
Please join me as we explore the wonders of the great outdoors through the creativity of one simple at a time. We gain appreciation for every leaf, every feather, every fleeting moment of natural spendor.
Birds and Birding Crafts
Study birds in your own backyard with these easy projects to make homemade hummingbird nectar or oriole food or a hummingbird feeder made entirely from recycled materials.
See traditional plans for a woodpecker house (adaptable for other birds too), plus bird feeders made from a milk carton, a coconut, or an ice sculpture as well as easy homemade bird houses, bird baths and planters.
Bugs, Insects, Spiders and Creepy Crawlies
Study ants in a homemade ant farm or create a healthy habitat for a pet snail; learn how to attract butterflies to your garden and how to make butterfly food; preserve a real spider web and mount it in a picture frame; make a clothespin dragonfly, make ladybug rocks or insect stick puzzles.
Botanicals
Press your own flowers in a homemade flower press; create scented lavender wands or lavender fans and serve up lavender recipes. Or try drying real flowers in a variety of ways; dry hydrangeas and make a hydrangea wreath; learn more about harvesting and preserving homegrown herbs.
Clay Pot Crafts
When is a clay pot not a clay pot? When it’s a bird bath, an angel, a beehive or a turtle, or when it’s transformed into a mosaic table, a gazing ball centerpiece, a gumball machine, or Potty Polly, the clay pot gardener shown above.
Please go check out my clay pot characters, planters and topiaries, and projects made from clay pots that are just plain potty fun.
Crafting for Fall
Crafting with autumn leaves, wreaths from pinecone to glitter, and a gathering of scarecrows.
Pine Cone Crafts
Learn how to collect and prepare pine cones for crafting, then turn your pine cones into beautiful wreaths, topiaries and ornaments.
For Christmas, make yourself some pine cone elves, a mistletoe kissing ball, and miniature pine cone trees or angels.
Crafting with Shells, Sticks and Stones
From humble nature walks many treasures appear; you may come home with seashells or egg shells, sticks or branches, stones or pebbles. And from those beginnings, many enchanting crafts arise.
See how easy it is to make a seashell shadow box, eggshell trinket box or mail organizer; painted stones or river rocks, rock turtles, Ojo de Dios, birch branch reindeer and other nature crafts built with sticks, stones or shells.
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