“If you become a bird and fly away from me,”
said his mother, “I will be a tree that you come home to.”
Month: April 2011
Our “Use What You Have” Easter Tree
I love the idea of an Easter Tree as a way to celebrate spring and the forthcoming holiday of birth/rebirth, and I decided to make one this year with my almost three-year-old.
For our tree base, Isaiah and I headed outside and clipped four branches, which we bound together at the base with pipe cleaners. We found a bright colored vase in the basement, along with two packages of tiny Easter ornaments I bought a couple of years ago but never knew what to do with.
Isaiah was super focused about helping me hang chicks, eggs, and bunnies on the branches.
It was just the motivation I needed to freshen up our mantle.
Weekend Links: Ways to Welcome Spring
Super fun ways to indulge your spring fever. Enjoy!
Indoor Nature Projects (for rainy spring afternoons)
Create a seasonal book basket and replace winter books with spring. (I plan to get our seasonal books from the library.)
Grow a grass centerpiece grass centerpiece
Plant a mossy garden bowl
Make some pretty rainbow play dough
Outside Fun
10 Unique Gardening Activities for Kids
Check out these tips on Play Area Design
Set up a Waldorf-style teepee
Replicate Soulemama’s Banging Wall (not sure the neighbors would appreciate this)
And check this out–an entire blog dedicated to amazing playhouses!