My son and I spent a lot of time hiking and collecting leaves, pinecones and flat rocks during the fall months. We have a large plate on our family room coffee table that holds all of our favorites. It is a fun reminder of all of our adventures together – and we have a thing for collecting the smallest pinecones we can find and flat rocks with holes in them, we are crazy that way.
We wanted a way to showcase some of our favorite finds so we decided to tie kitchen twine to them and hang them on some branches in a vase. We also hung some on our dining room chandelier. These have become quite the conversation starters, when guests come over they always comment on our “nature mobiles” wanting to know where we found all of the fun treasures.
Materials:
- An assortment of found natural items (rocks, pinecones, leaves, branches)
- Kitchen Twine
- Scissors
- Vase
Instructions:
- Wash natural items and air dry.
- Add kitchen twine, arrange as desired and randomly tie items on the branches.
Jennie Lyon is the owner of Sweet Greens, an award-winning green lifestyle blog. She posts on simple, fun ways families can go green together. Jennie writes green parenting, children’s how-to projects and green design posts at Inhabitots, and contributes to Cascadian Farm, Applegate and is a member of Target’s Inner Circle as well as a Stonyfield Yo-Getters Ambassador
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