Shirley’s Prepackaged Crafts

Even if it’s nasty outside on the day you read this note, nice weather is coming!  Maybe you live in a mild climate and flowers are already blooming in your yard!  Along with the mild temperatures and sunny days come walks outside again.  Time outside lifts the spirits and brings smiles to little faces (and to mommy’s face too)!

When heading out for your next walk, go for a “God Walk” instead.  Go in search of evidence of God.  Those little hands like to be busy, so set their mind on things above, and have them collect anything that God created.  Stones have always been a big hit around our place – we actually put a limit on those!  Wonder along with your children about all the things they can be collecting.  There’s the grass and leaves of course, but what of bee or wasp nests (empty ones of course!), empty bird eggs now found on the ground, bird feathers, twigs, moss. . . and the list goes on!

What on earth do you do with all these things collecting in your home?  It can be your nature center!  Get a shoe box, decorate it, put your items in zip lock bags (label them if you want) and call it your God Box.  If you find you’re collecting a lot of leaves and feathers then tape them to a piece of paper and put them in page protectors inside a binder.  Use field guides to determine which bird or tree God has made that this particular item came from.  It’s amazing at just how creative God is . . . and that’s only in your part of the world!

So get out on some God walks and let your spirits be refreshed!