Natural Arts Workshop - birdboxes, mallet making, Insect hotels and natural inks and pigments.

Dani and myself just shared some of our experiments and discoveries at a workshop in our local comprehensive. The day consisted of some outdoor crafts - making bird boxes, bug hotels and mallets; and some natural arts - pewter casting, and painting and crushing natural pigments. Here are some of the photos...

Whittling sticks for bug hotels.

Adding the bug hotel roof.

Sawing in the rain, but still smiling.

Careful measuring.

People playing with natural inks and river stone pigments.

Adding the egg.

More crushing.

These girls decided to paint their bug hotel with the natural inks.

Oak galls and river stones.

Adding oil.

This girl had a very creative idea.

Jade helping some girls to put their bird box together.

Jade sharing the natural paints.

A final design after some experimentation.

A happy bird box maker.

Super duper bird box!

Whittling by the fire.

Another final design after experimentation.

This boy wanted to add some funky stripes to his mallet.