Many people love beechnuts and many people love geometry. But did you know you can experience them together? The beechnut and geometry. I have noticed that the shapes inside the beechnut resemble very closely the beginning constructions of geometry patterns. The geometry of seeds I love collecting seeds from trees. They always display such great […]
Natural Collections in a chocolate box
Natural collections in a chocolate box Many people ask me about suitable display boxes for their natural collections. There are lots of ways to display and it is something I get really into. Anything that already has dividers is great. we previously did a shell collection in an ice cube tray. One of my favourites […]
Nature Crowns
How to make Nature Crowns. A quick ‘how to’ post on making these Nature Crowns. Everyone wants to be a Tribal Lord or Forest Queen so suitable headgear is a must! This is an activity featured in The 365 Nature Journal on April 18th, although its good for anytime of the year! We did these […]
Galls – shape shifters of the insect world
Galls; the shape shifters of the wasp world I discovered galls from a documentary about the oak tree.. since then I’ve been looking for them everywhere. My aim is to collect all the different types, but I might have to travel far flung places. To create Knopper galls the Gall Wasps lay eggs in the […]
Circles in Nature
Circles in Nature On the most simplistic level we see shapes, circles and symmetry in nature all around us. But that is not all, we can delve much deeper. There is no better place to observe the different scales and dimensions of the natural world than in the study of the circle in nature and […]
