What you’ll need • Sticks


• 753696 – YPO Elastic Bands – Assorted Colours


Weaving Loom


As well as providing children with an opportunity to show off the treasures they have collected on their nature walks, this activity is great for developing fi ne motor skills and encouraging creativity. Tie the yarn to the stick and wrap around the ‘V’ part to create a loom that the children can weave ribbons and natural materials like feathers, grass and leaves into. Once fi nished they can be used to create an eye- catching display by either sticking in the ground or standing in a pot fi lled with soil.


What you’ll need • A strong ‘V’ shaped stick • 341223 Weft Yarns – Pack of 10 • 300024 Jute Ribbons


• Natural materials such as leaves, feathers, and grass


Natural Paint Brushes


Children will love experimenting with nature and paint to see what marks they can make using brushes made by securing leaves, fl owers, and grass to the end of sticks with elastic bands. Go on a nature hunt around your setting to forage for supplies and then simply secure to the sticks with elastic bands. Just add paper and paint!


• 739678 – YPO Ready Mixed Paint – Pack of 20


What you’ll need


• Sticks • 301528 – Double Knit Yarn - Brights


• 303941 – Stick on Wiggle Eyes – Pack of 500


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Worry Dolls


Worry dolls have been used in Guatemala for generations as a tool to help manage worries and anxiety at bedtime. The idea is that you tell your worry to the doll, put it under your pillow and the doll will worry for you so you can get a peaceful night’s sleep. This can easily be adapted for use in your setting by letting each child make their own worry doll to confi de in and then providing a basket for them to put them in once they have told them their problems.


Gather sticks from around your setting. Any size will do but chunkier ones are easier for little hands. Get the children to wrap the sticks with diff erent coloured yarn (great for fi ne motor skills), leaving enough room at the top to make a face. To secure, leave a little tail and wrap over it a few times with the yarn. To fi nish knot the yarn or use tape to secure.


Now let them decorate their worry doll using marker pens and wiggle eyes, they could even add hair using scraps of yarn.


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