20 Hygge Nature Crafts for Children

Aug 21, 2024

Try these Hygge Nature Crafts for Children. Some wonderful nature-based craft ideas to inspire you.

1. Make a stick nest

Add a pine cone bird - pine cone with feather for a tail and wings

2. Clay or playdough Faces

Use homemade playdough or air dry clay to create creatures and faces on the bark of trees.

3. Bark Rubbings

Create bark rubbings or leaf rubbings then use them in your other craft activities - perhaps on your nature bracelet or wand?

4. Flower Pressing

Flower pressing has long been a wonderful nature craft activity. If you don't have a press just use heavy book lined with paper to press your flowers. These can then be used in crafts later in the year - perhaps on a Cosy Hygge Jar with fairy lights inside?

Or, create an air dry clay trinket bowl with your pressed flowers stuck on with a layer of pva on top to protect them.

Or, add them to candles to decorate them.

5. Leaf and Stick Butterflies/dragonflies

A cute nature craft using nature.

6. Hessian Ribbon nature bracelet

Stick collected nature treasures and stick them to some hessian for a pretty nature bracelet. Or use paper or card for your bracelet.

7. Nature Wand

A stick with hessian or string ribbon, craft wire or string to attach natural treasures - shells, pine cones, feathers, leaves, flowers.

8. Create a loose parts / transient art insect.

Simply draw a basic outline outdoors on the floor or in a tuff tray and then get the children to fill it in with nature.

9. Make a stick sail boat with a leaf sail

10. Make a pebble insect - caterpillar, spider, butterfly, ladybug

11. Make a nature crown

12. Make your own scarecrow!

These two were found at our local forest school! Perfect to scare away the pigeons if you grow your own fruit and vegetables in your setting. Use old clothes and straw to fill it.