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Hello again! As you probably know, my book Jacob Starke Loves the Dark<\/em> has inspired quite a few nature-based art activities. But the one I\u2019m sharing with you today came about quite by accident when my daughter took her science teacher\u2019s suggestion to \u2018paint some flowers\u2019 quite literally, and emerged from the garden with a handful of flowers smothered in paint! It reminded me of the playing cards painting the white roses red for the Queen of Hearts in Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderlan<\/em>d! Anyway, we decided to put her painty flowers to good use and do some printing with nature! Why don\u2019t you have a go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don\u2019t forget, I\u2019d love to see what you get up You can email it to petarainford@gmail.com<\/strong>, post it on my Peta Rainford’s Facebook page @dogpigeon<\/strong>, or Tweet me @PetaRainford<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5: Printing with nature!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This really doesn\u2019t need much explanation: when you go out in the garden or out on a walk, look for interesting shaped leaves (veiny ones are best!) and flowers. Other objects like feathers might work well too. Apply some paint\u2026 and print!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    You might also like to try these extra challenges<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Once you\u2019ve done your printing, you could embellish with drawing (see top of page) or painting, like Tilly did (see below)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Hello again! As you probably know, my book Jacob Starke Loves the Dark has inspired quite a few nature-based art activities. But the one I\u2019m sharing with you today came about quite by accident when my daughter took her science teacher\u2019s suggestion to \u2018paint some flowers\u2019 quite literally, and emerged from the garden with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[66,64,65,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dogpigeon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}