::: fork ‘n’ spoon wind chimes
Following Jackson’s suggestion when admiring our painted sticks, we gathered up some goodies for the children to make wind chimes. Our yard is going to look fabulous!
We already had some utensils with holes in them from past activities and added electric wire covers, beads, small bells, foil cases, sticks, wooden beads etc… really anything that could be threaded and could cope with being outside in the wind.
One of the lovely parishioners from the church brought us a box of wood offcuts, so out came the trusty drill.
While we were at it, we thought the children may as well drill holes into other things such as gumnuts and sticks.
We didn’t offer the children needles this time …
preffering them to have a go using their fingers to thread with fishing line …
which proved to be another great fine motor challenge!
Our children love any threading activity and are always engaged here for long periods of time.
Gone are the days when the children want to take everything they make home. Now they love the idea of putting their creations into group displays.
We hung our windchimes from our sunblinds just outside the door …
this way we can lower …
and raise them to catch the wind!
We so love it when the children come up with such irresistible ideas.
Good on you Jackson!
Tags: beads, bells, cutlery, fishing line, forks, spoons, windchimes, wood
That has been a big moment for us as well, reaching a point when the children don’t expect to take everything home, but instead make things for the “whole school.”
These are wonderful, creative works of art — a simple idea that we’ll be trying out next week! Although, I’ll be curious to learn if you have another fine motor project after your next wind storm: untangling! =)
::: So far so good Tom … but we reckon you’re prophecy will prove right!
They are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
::: Thanks Shar!
With all your communal art, your space is just blossoming with cool stuff. Each windchime is so individual – I love that you can see the kids used the same materials but each developed his windchime differently. I agree. Good on you, Jackson!
::: You’re right Scott … each one is unique, that’s what we love too!
I have hammered forks and spoons flat to make chimes before, but I love your interpretation! I think we might need some in our trees too
::: Good on you Cath! When we tried to hammer the spoons flat they just split so we chose to curl the fork prongs instead!
They’re wonderful! I’m going to do this one with our homeschool group…thank you for the inspiration!!
maureen
::: It’s our absolute pleasure Maureen.
Beautiful – and you are so right about threading! (How do you stabilise gumnuts to drill holes into?)
::: With big’ clamp things’ Louise!
Love these – we are working on making a fun garden space too. Just the inspiration I needed! Thanks!
::: They do make perfect garden art don’t they Amie?!
