The Lost Islands Map

The Lost Islands Map, a photo by Nature Play Corps on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Illustrating the pathway and play habitat locations for Week Two of the Nature Play Corps. The real question is: where is the treasure?

Sound Island

*Clink* *Clank* *Ring* *Tap* *Crunch* *Howl* *Growl*

Some of our "animals" that inhabited the island :)

Sounds of the forest that resonated though our play habitat, Sound Island, this week. We set our stage with a multitude of "instruments" - a harp: fishing line strung up in between two trees; Castanets: shells clapped together; Wind chimes: silverware found along the beach strung up from a tree; Drums: old containers; Maracas: Tupperware containers filled with sand, sea glass, and sticks; Drumsticks: sticks and silver ware; Guiro: carved notches into a tree branch; Ocean collage chimes: part of a crab buoy, shells, and sea glass strung up on a piece of drift wood. So many things to create our animal orchestra!!

Ocean Collage Chimes :)

But an animal orchestra needs an animal choir to accompany it! We encouraged the kids to use their voices and anythings else they could find in the woods in addition to the "instruments". They howled and growled and on occasion, we heard howls back! The kids were in awe!! To help the kids envelop their new animal persona, we painted out faces like animals!

The kids loved it! They even were inspired to become artists themselves and painted our faces too!

Then some treasure hunters discovered our island! They were searching for treasure that a note they found on the Hidden Cove said would be with the wolves (indicating our island). We had no gold, be we did have the treasure of music that we were more than happy to share with them!

Kaitlyn and Debi after face painting :)

-Kaitlyn, Debi, Carly