Nature Painting with Plants











We took plants and flowers from a little hike, put them into colour groupings and mashed them one by one in a foil bowl with a pestle with a little bit of water ( I wonder now whether oil might have been more effective?).
Then we strained the coloured juice back into containers and painted on birch bark.
It was a very faint coloured paint, you could add berries, fruits, and veggies perhaps to strengthen it. I think it was more the process that the kids enjoyed than the actual painting at the end.
Is it just the plants and water smashed with a mortar and pestle type of thing?
Hi Rachel, yes, sorry I meant to add a few instructions in the comments. We took plants and flowers from a little hike, put them into colour groupings and mashed them one by one in a foil bowl with a pestle with a little bit of water ( I wonder now whether oil might have been more effective?). Then strained the coloured juice back into containers and painted on birch bark. It’s a very faint coloured paint, you could add berries, fruits, and veggies perhaps to strengthen it. But it was more the process that the kids enjoyed than the actual painting at the end. X
I love the act of using items from nature in our play and in our crafting. So many wonderful ways to create color from nature for different paints and even fabric dyes! Thank you for sharing these photographs; they are just lovely!