Make a Nature Mobile

ArtPreschool FunNature Play
Written By Kim Manunui

Making a nature mobile can be an art activity, a way to display your taonga from a nature walk, or a STEM challenge.

Go on a hunt in nature for interesting items like leaves, pine cones, seed pods, shells, feathers etc. Also collect some sticks to make a frame to hang your collection from.

Tie your sticks together with string to make a cross, or a square frame. Or, you could even just use one stick to hang your items from, and try to get it to balance evenly! Then tie the items that you collected to pieces of string and hang them from your frame.

If you want to only use items from nature, use strips of harakeke (flax) or tīkouka (cabbage tree) leaves instead of string.

Now you have a beautiful mobile made from nature to hang in your home. What a great way to display your natural taonga (treasures) that you’ve collected!

Make it a Challenge!

If you want a challenge, set a task like, “Create a mobile using at least 2 sticks, with at least 8 items from nature hanging from them.” Make it more tricky by not allowing any string, glue or tape! The participants must use only items found in nature. See who can create a mobile that meets the criteria and balances perfectly in the time allocated. What a great team building activity for camp!

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
and we’ll manage your social media presence so you get the clicks, likes and engagement to grow your business. All within the budget you set, because none of this needs to cost the earth.  And the job doesn’t stop when your website goes live. We are your virtual business partner.

https://www.korio.co.nz
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