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This is a perfect project when studying autumn, the seasons, or trees and plants. It could also be good for a life cycle study, illustrating the idea that things are still beautiful at the end of the life cycle and still serve a purpose.

Supplies:

Look for lots of natural, dried plants for your arrangement. You can use dried seed heads, stalks, wheat, ferns, grasses, etc. Just be careful to not pick plants that could give you a rash like poison oak or poison ivy … they do have pretty leaves but they come with lots of itches!

Self-Hardening Clay
Scissors

Directions:

1. Shape a handful of clay into a mound.

2 Trim any extra leaves from bottom of seed and weed stalks with scissors.

3. Stick the stems of your dried and trimmed plants into the clay mound.

4. Put the tallest in the center, then the next tallest, etc, ending with the small ones around them. As you work, make sure to keep everything looking even from all angles, but a little unevenness is interesting looking.

NOTE: Sometimes it helps to put a little white glue or craft glue onto the stems before you stick them into the clay.

Copyright 2001 Kathryn Martinez. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

About Kathryn Martinez: I'm a SAHM, home schooling mother of 4 children, 1 husband, and a neurotic cat. This is our sixth year of home schooling. I worked for over 10 years at USF in an education and training department. I hope that by sharing my experience with other home schoolers, both the new and the not-so-new and those just considering home schooling, I will pass along all the help that was given to me when I first started out.

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