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Description

Make your own magical nature faces using natural materials.

Resources

Natural materials (for example, leaves, twigs, feathers)
Non-plastic bags to collect materials in

Instructions

Gather everyone together and explain to everyone that they’ll be collecting materials to make their own nature faces. A nature face is a picture of a person made out of natural materials. It could even be a self portrait, an animal, or something imaginative, such as a monster face!
If you’ve made one, you may wish to show everyone your example nature face.
1 Everyone should help to collect natural materials.
If the group is going on a walk, make sure everyone sticks together and follows the route.
If the group is staying in one specific area, make sure everyone knows the boundaries, what to do in an emergency, the sign to stop (such as a long blow on a whistle) and where adults will be.
2 After collecting the materials, let people start to create their face.You may wish to use our templates to help you create your nature face.
You could also make an outline using nature, such as drawing a face outline in soil, or making one using natural items, such as twigs, leaves or pebbles. (or use template)
3 explore emotions while making the faces:
HAPPY
SAD
SURPRISED
SCARED
TERRIFIED (crying)
and encourage them to mimic the faces so they can identify the emotions and how we show them. Also emphasise that not everyone would 'put the same face' to show an emotion and that sometimes there are other clues to empathise with other people feelings

4 Once all the faces are finished, everyone should show or talk about the face they made.
You could use them in a story or game, such as Guess Who. You could also try to make a giant nature face together.
5 When you’re finished, put all the items back where you found them in nature. If you collected the materials on a walk, you can either return them later or find a suitable place to put them.
6 Ask everyone why it’s important to put the natural materials back where they came from. Explain that the items used in the faces could be homes or food for the animals, and how it helps the environment to put everything back as you found it.

Tags

• emotional intelligence
• emotions
• faces
• feelings
• Nature Activities
• Nature exploration

Badge Links

• Feel Good - Feelings
• Get Creative - Nature
• Get Creative - Picture or model