While drinking my cup of tea this morning, I was thinking about the grandbabies need for bigger pockets on nature walks. I decided to throw together something they could use for collecting treasures. I wanted to make it small enough to be uncumbersome, and unlike a backpack, something they could get to easily. I made …
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Need a Bigger Pocket!
I love going on walk-abouts with children. EVERYTHING is so fascinating to them. Bugs and rocks, fungus and tracks captivate their imagination and provide fodder for an insurmountable barrage of questions. And I’ve yet to go on a nature walk with a child who has not found some priceless treasure. Sparkly rocks, a cardinal feather, …
Welcome!
No matter how you happened to stumble upon this blog you are most certainly welcome! This blog is written by a mother/daughter team. Although our personalities and personal style differ, we hold true to the same values. Family and home, crafting and creating, guide us through our days. The purpose of Wee Folk Art is …
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park
Part Two: The Legend of Sleeping Bear This quite a sad story actually. A Mother Bear and her two bear cubs fled fires in the Chicago area and attempted to swim across the lake. The Mother bear kept looking back at her cubs as they went. When she finally reached the other side she was alone. She …
Planting in the Hoof Prints
We finally got the veggie beds ready to plant. I’ve been working at digging them out the last couple weekends and Sunday we moved some top soil in from a bunch of old planter boxes we are removing from elsewhere in the yard. We set up the sprinkler to test out the coverage and left nice, wet, loose …
Mouse Paint
Normally art around here is basically free play. We get out the paints, play dough or crayons with little to no direction. But today I decided we were going to make more of lesson out it. So with aprons on, paper in front of them, I read the story “Mouse Paint” by Ellen Walsh. I …
Jamming… lots and lots of jamming
We actually ran out of jam this past year. I had to resort to buying it at the grocery store. Maybe this does not seem like a big deal to some… but around here it was almost unfathomable. I grew up Jamming. My mom displayed her jam jars with pretty calico fabric tops proudly in the …
Woolly Bear Caterpillar
A couple weeks ago ‘A’ found a Woolly Bear Caterpillar in the backyard. A great find in any little boy’s world! We gave him a nice home for the night, looked up what type of winged creature he would turn into and then set him free in the morning. I wasn’t totally up on what …