I decided to get
involved with the green hearts project after watching the beautiful
and moving video the Coalition For Climate Change made for
Valentine's Day this year. This project seemed a natural for me and
the kids, we love craft, we love our beautiful green and blue planet
and we love sending mail !
We began with this :
And then we got busy
with scissors, paper and glue :
We ended up with
this :
And this :
And in fact, all
these :
Oh yeah and we also
made some of these, inspired by Wee Folk Art's craft project too* :
I knew we would
enjoy this but I was blown away by the frank and moving conversation
we shared while we worked about taking care of our earth, loving our
earth, understanding why other people might not feel that way. And
of course, I was also overwhelmed not only by the quantity but by
the amazing quality of the work produced. Some of these are going to
be decorating our home, some are intended for our car windows in the
hope they might kick off discussions with others and yet more are
already winding their way to friends homes with a very special and a
little different Valentines message this year.
If any of you joined
in with this too we'd love to see your hearts and hear about how you
made them ! We're already thinking about felting some too using
cookie cutters. For the time being, here's are a few more of our
paper creations…
*Just a note to say that I didn't have any sticky back plastic so we used plastic folders (the kind you put documents in) and some thick plastic from a packet of paper. We stuck the frame and the translucent paper on with glue sticks and it dried transparent.
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