Create your own beautiful plantable seed tags! Add flower petals and you'll have a beautiful decorative card for now, and flowers for later!

This is a really fun experiment showing how little boats made of leaves can be powered by ballpoint pen ink!

This is a great activity for creating leaf prints with watercolour paint.

These little notebooks bound with a twig and some twine and decorated with pressed flowers look just like they would belong to a fairy!

Branch weaving is a really lovely nature craft that can be adapted for children (and adults!) of various ages. You can use left over bits of yarn, ribbon, twine and even found nature items such as grasses and feathers to weave onto your branch loom.

Making string art is a really fun activity to do with children, especially if they like hammering things! They also make really lovely Valentine’s gifts.

Using wood slices as miniature canvases for any kind of painting is really fun for kids (and adults!) of all ages. For older children who are moving on from mark-making, this activity shows an easy way to paint a miniature flower meadow on wood slices.

Building a mossarium, is really fun - it’s like creating your own mini world! It’s also great for exploring different mosses as well as learning about the water cycle.

This colour changing flowers experiment is a great way to see how water travels in plants and it’s really fun to see the flowers change colour!

A really easy and fun activity making your own charcoal for drawing.

Whittling stick characters is a great beginner activity for young children who haven’t whittled before.

Decorate pebbles with colourful tissue paper and display around your garden or as part of an Easter or spring display in your home. The tissue paper gives a really lovely stained glass effect.

A variety of plant parts can be used to produce inks and dyes – everything from roots and nuts to flowers and berries and even food waste. Alder cones produce a lovely warm caramel colour which is great to use as ink.

This nature noughts and crosses game is perfect for playing outdoors and is really simple to make. You can also draw a picture version on the other side of your noughts and crosses!

This is a really fun art activity to do with bug-loving children, done by blowing the paint around through a straw!

Making your own musical instrument is a fun project for kids of all ages and this bottle xylophone is really simple to make. You can also use your bottle xylophone to experiment with sound and how it changes depending on how much water you add to the bottles.

Make colourful art using the abundance of leaves around at this time of year! This activity is a twist on the popular leaf rubbing activity with crayons that is great for little ones to do, particularly in autumn when it is so much fun to collect the colourful fallen leaves.

This paper aeroplane catapult is amazing! Not only does it make paper aeroplanes fly really far and really fast, but it also still works on paper aeroplanes that have their noses all squashed and bent - game changer!