Nature Rings
Preparation
needed: none
Resources: natural
resources in the area you are in
Age
range: early years, primary, secondary, adult
Group
size: any but works well with very large groups as long as
there are sufficient resources available
Additional
issues: Chose a large, clear area to set out your circle. Please
ensure that you do not use anything in short supply or endangered in this large
group art activity.
Form a circle. Show everybody something that they can
easily find in the area you are in, for example a daisy. Send everybody off to
find one just the same. When they return to the circle make your circle as
close as possible and place the daisies in a circle on the ground so they are
nearly touching.
Choose another natural object, for example a brown leaf
and make a slightly larger circle around the first one. Keep finding objects to
make more circles using different colours and shapes.
How about using some twigs, pebbles, pine needles,
acorns, seeds or flower petals? Don’t forget if you use a leave with the
underside up it will make a different colour and texture than those that are
placed face up. You could use brought objects like pencils, packed lunch boxes
and coats to really personalise your circle
What
are we learning from this activity? : following rules of a
game, cooperation, teamwork, working with others, integrating artwork into an
environmental setting, using natural resources, choosing and selecting
resources, matching and observational skills.