nature trading club

Happy first day of summer! We are so excited to be part of the Nature Trading Club started by Little Cottonwood. Such a great idea to get your kids creating and out in nature.  

Little Cottonwood challenged us to go out and explore our surroundings.  To gather any unique pieces of nature and were then challenged to get creative with our nature treasures. After we gathered and created we sent our nature box off to Illinois!  They assigned our exchange partner to the kids before we started. We are so excited to get our box in the mail from the family assigned to us. 

Our family decided to go to Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas to explore.  Living in the desert it is a little more difficult to find nature. We found lots of sand, lot of rocks and a few leaves.  Haha!  We love how unique our area is and did our best to create some fun nature projects.  The kids found some small rocks and we made a tic-tac-toe game. The game is perfect to take anywhere.  Just put the rocks in the bag and when you are ready to play, just pull the rocks back out.  We put our very HOT sand into a bottle and they loved to look at the different layers of sand.  Our last project was to make animals that are native to Las Vegas out of leaves.  They turned out so cute! So cute in fact that they didn't want to give up their creations. Haha! They were proud of their rattlesnake and bunny.

I loved this project because it got us out of the house. This is the first time we have ever hiked Red Rock Canyon in the summer. It's HOT here! We loved it though. We brought plenty of water and a picnic and it was a perfect summer day.

Follow Little Cottonwood on Instagram @littlecottonwood for more information on when the next trading club will start.  Your kids will love this!!  It's a great way to kick off summer fun.