Make An Indoor Garden
We used bits and pieces from our junk cupboard as well as scraps of fabric
and found objects from the garden to make this miniature indoor garden - a great
project for a rainy afternoon, to being the outdoors inside!
You will need:
A small square of wood or tough cardboard for the base
Green felt or other fabric to cover
Green wool or sponge for the bushes
An old CD, scraps of fabric, tissue paper, cardboard and other bits and pieces
Twigs and pebbles from the garden
Instructions:
Gather all your materials together and begin to design your garden, using our
ideas as a starting point but letting your imagination and the objects you have
on hand help you come up with your own ideas, too.
We used an old CD as a formal ornamental pond, surrounding it with pebbles and
attaching a spray of white netting as a fountain in the middle.
Tiny twists of colourful tissue paper stuck to the base suggest flowers.
Our garden bench is assembled from scraps of balsa wood and cardboard, with a
rectangle of green floral fabric as the seat.
We built a birdhouse using scraps of corrugated cardboard and a twig from the
garden. To stand it up we used a big dollop of glue from a hot glue gun (older
children must be supervised when using a hot glue gun, and younger children
should let an adult apply the glue for them). Notice the bush made of a loose,
scrunched up ball of green wool (yarn).
We are sure you can think of many other ways to decorate your own miniature
model indoor garden!
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