Birds need fluid just like us. In summer and when it is very dry, so that puddles and ditches are dried out, it is hard for birds to find enough water. You can easily build a bird's drink, but there are some things to consider.
Build a bird's drink with a beach bath
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Pattern & Mandalas painting with street crayons
Painting patterns and mandalas is fun. Especially after a busy day, painting patterns relaxes.
Collect and dry swarf
Maybe you still remember your childhood. When picking flowers, the swarf was always present with us in the bouquet. Because it has a hard stem, which can be easily torn off. But next to a beautiful summer bouquet, a delicious tea can be prepared from the swarf and it is suitable for tinctures and ointments.
The swarf belongs to the medicinal herbs and helps, for example, in the case of sniffing, sunburn, digestive problems, wound healing, loss of appetite or flatulence.
Build Insect Hotel for Earworms
Most children like to observe everything that crawls in the nature of beetles. This also includes the earworms. They are nocturnal and especially popular with garden owners, because they eat the aphids of fruit trees and roses. You can easily build an insect house for earworms with the children. For this you only need a clay pot and some straw.
Picking and drying chamomile
When the chamomile flowers, let's get out into nature and gather and dry the fragrant chamomile flowers. Children like picking herbs and flowers, and they get to know nature and the plants. From the chamomile flowers, for example, you can brew tea, use it as flower flowers in the salad or use it for wound disinfection.
Collect elderflowers – Tea, syrup, lemonade
On long walks through nature we collect herbs. The children are on the way with the balance bike, so they create slightly longer distances. The breaks for collecting herbs are a welcome change. We collect elderflowers in May and June and dry them to drink them later as tea. You can also make elderflower syrup or elderflower lemonade. The children get to know nature. They get to know the plants and distinguish them in their scent, taste and purpose.
Make a flag
There are so many sticks and branches with us, and on every occasion the children drag them back home again. Today we use a branch to make a flag out of it. Quite simply from an old shirt.
Bake lemon-rosemary cloud cookies
Children love to help with baking. Small children can also help with baking cookies. Suitable for a rainy early summer day, we baked fresh lemon rosemary cookies as small clouds. Lemon and rosemary smell wonderful and are a great combination.
Collect stones and play with them (4 ideas)
Crib children discover their world. Go looking for stones. This can be on the roadside or in their own garden. Finding stones is a great occupation for the little ones, for example, while you work in the garden, pluck weeds, take a picnic or enjoy the sun.
Water games with flowers (3 ideas)
Panning in the water, fishing out a little, letting some swim & #8230; experiment because it's just fun. Children learn so much playfully:
Mindfulness in handling things, trusting in one's own doings, fine motor skills, …