For the longest time I have been meaning to put together a nature table--a small place in our home that reflects the season of the year in one form or another. While we were living in Portland, we had a collection of beautiful natural objects that we found on our many hikes through the forests of the city, and this was a calm and pleasant place for us, but it was never a true nature table.
Recently, I joined the Seasons Round Exchange. To help inspire our fall nature table, I will make something for a fall nature table and send it off to my cyberspace partner and he or she will dot he same for us. I have participated in one of these "exchanges" in the past and I am looking forward to it again.
In the meantime, the kids and I put together a summer nature table using some fresh mint for a tree, rocks, shells, a blue silk for water, and various other natural items that we have collected. I also purchased this book, and I plan on using it to collect more ideas for our Autumn table.
While I love the idea of the table, I have not quite figured out how to incorporate it into our lives. Harvey does play with it--he makes animals climb on the rocks and swim in the water but it is otherwise largely ignored. If anyone has any ideas, please share!
1 comment:
great new picture for your title!
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