…and saw, and found, and did, and wrote about.
My middle son, Timothy, goes to a forest school two days a week. Last week they were learning about the art of Andy Goldsworthy. Divided into groups, they made mandalas with the elements of nature they found around the forest. This is the one Timothy’s group worked on.
The center is red cedar pulp from a decomposing log. Then there are pine cones, leaves, moss, pine needles from various types of trees, mushrooms, and ferns. The very center is a mushroom. I love that this is school for him!
Based on a quote from a book we love (The Good Brown Earth by Kathy Henderson), I made this sign to hang up over the kids’ gardens. They each have an 8′ x 8′ space, and as you can see, by a certain point in the season it is indeed “higgledy-piggledy tangly fantastic.”
They each had seeds they chose this year plus some the Easter Bunny brought, and then we let them loose with our old leftover seeds from previous years. The 3 year old especially went a little nuts with planting. He was loving it!
