Take your kids outdoors for an adventure. Explore your surroundings and collect intriguing items found in nature to use when creating artwork. Your children may have made objects from pinecones at school, but nature offers lots of other fun stuff as well. Leaves make excellent pieces for creating works of art. Dip them in paint and use them as stamps, or cover them with a coat of clear spray paint or glue mixed with water to preserve them and give them a nice sheen. Glue lots of different shapes and colors of leaves to a background for beautiful botanic artwork. … Continue reading →