Great for the Kids!!!
I thought you might enjoy this one. It is a fairy pond with tiny junk fossils. The tiny junk fossils now appear to be large! Some even reflected in the “water”. Just tap on the picture to enlarge it and see how many fossils you can find!
If you are hunting with children or grandchildren, they will inevitably pick up more than fossils. And the tiniest fossils always seem to get lost. This is a great way to have fun with the kids and their tiny treasures. You can add sticks, acorns and pieces of bone to this as well. The idea is just to relax and have fun using your imagination to create miniature scenes.
I took clear silicone and glued a little craft mirror to a flat rock. Then I put a liberal ring of silicone around the mirror and arranged small bits of matrix and fossilized matrix onto it. I smeared a little bit of the silicone out and created a beach with matrix sand. Then I poured the bits of rock and sand in the bottom of my matrix bucket onto it on the inside and outside to coat any silicone left showing.
Pond Only
This is a great project for the kids and grandkids, especially if you have a broken mirror around and some leftover silicone in the tube that needs to be used up or it will dry up.
Besides fairy gardens, these are fun for model railroad scenes, Barbie gardens (Many of my fairies are made out of junked Barbies.), for toy horses as a pasture pond, or in a terrarium, or sandbox, with toy dinosaurs, your imagination is the limit!
Bev 😀
