Stingray's Created With Jacaranda Seed Pods

  

While visiting Southern California last month I was relaxing in my brothers backyard and eyed a tree with purple flowers.

On the ground below there were dropped flowers with seed pods among them.

My bother told me the tree was a Jacaranda. When I picked a pod up off the ground it automatically looked like a stingray to me. Not thinking why that thought immediately came to mind, it clicked later that day. I had been to the Long Beach Aquarium the day before and watched stingrays swim and feed in a outdoor pool.

 

Simply glued on some movable eyes I had in my craft things and it became a stingray.

The Stingray (Weird Sea Creatures)

Summer Camping Trip With Story Felts

Enjoy the fun of camping with your friends. This set includes over 30 figures and a board that measures 12” x 31” for your camping pleasure!

Earth Child 2000: Earth Science for Young Children is a book I refer to often when teaching as is a wonderful addition to any home or school library. An excerpt from the book reads,

"Camping and hiking in a wilderness area is an excellent way to become a part of the natural world, especially if you live in an urban area most of the year. You and your children will carry the feelings and memories of an outdoor experience with you long after you've returned to town: and with the slightest recollection, a yearning for another encounter with nature beckons you to go back." 

Children can recreate the experience or make up their own camping story by using the felts above.

Back at home you can also recreate the smores experience by making your own smores with wool felt or purchasing a kit to assemble at Dream House.