f is for flora, fauna, and french fries

 

For F day the first time around there was very little documentation, but we did have a fish for dinner!

The second time around I made a fruit and flowers mobile using tissue paper, and styrofoam.  

My son drew a lovely apple and made a watermelon, and my daughter who had been away that morning swiftly came in and cut them to pieces with our scissors. 

So I tried to tape them back together as best I could but it mostly ended up being a craft day for me.

 He also helped make our pomegranate

 

Sometimes that's just how it goes. 

(But I had fun, and they grew to like the mobile so much they wouldn't let me bring it to our artist residency at the Sou'wester! But I made a second one there--and that was fun too!)

F is also wonderfully inclusive of so many things, flora! fauna! forests! You really have almost whatever is out the door at your fingertips, or a world to explore online, or in books, depending on circumstances. This year we've dealt with quarantine, wildfire smoke, ice storms, power outages! Crazy stuff, so improvisation has been crucial to our success, and in fact I find much of my creativity is born of restrictions. Using only trash from our house? ok. Using only trash we find on a walk? ok. Using only trash from stuff that comes in the mail? Stuff from our garage/basement/attic? Old socks from dad for puppets? A random piece of wood with a square cut out to make a puppet stage? Sure! 

And there are some wonderful F books: Frog and Toad for one. 

Foraging 

in the forest for flowers 

Finding feral fruit

Fern rubbings in the forest 

Feather collecting 

Pressing feathers or ferns or other forested findings into clay 

Field collections 

Making a living room fort

Box fort 

Blanket fort

Tree fort

*Feast

*family tree

*Flora & fauna

*Fruit and flowers —-paper mobile 

Or garland 

Crepe paper flowers

Tissue paper flowers

Fort 

Fart 

Front 

First 

Feather

Farm

*Forest 

Far

Friend 

French toast 

France 

French fries 

Fried 

Fry

Forever 

Fancy 

Fashion 

Festival 

Fantasy

*Fire—candle roasted marshmallows 

Flower

Fragrance 

Freedom flying a flag 

Fourth of July

Future

Fun 

Fairy house in yard 

Frog

Furry feathered friends