Ice Nature Decorations

With the freezing temperatures at night we tried a fun nature activity.

On our daily walk we collected some nature items eg leaves, berries, seed heads. 

Just be careful if collecting with little ones as some berries, seeds and leaves could be poisonous. 

We put them in a tub, then added water and a piece of string we had tied into a loop. Then we placed the tub outside over night to freeze. 

This is a fun way to talk about what happens to water in cold/freezing temperatures and then what happens when the sun shines.

Talk about water being a liquid and freezing to become a solid/ice when the temperature is below 0, then when heat/sunshine is applied the ice melts back to a liquid.

In the morning we hung our ice decorations in the tree. They looked lovely shining in the sunlight as they melted. 

We were inspired by mud and bloom on Instagram. 

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