By: Deborah Pace Rowley
We enjoy camping and spending time in the mountains as a
family. If you ever come to a campsite that the Rowleys have recently
abandoned, look around for a woodland home somewhere in the vicinity. Over the
years, we have created countless natural homes for critters and fairies alike
to inhabit. We aren’t picky about who comes to stay; we just hope they enjoy
the structure for as long as it lasts.
(A
squirrel checking out our woodland home.)
There are only a few rules for creating a woodland home.
First, nothing in the structure is glued or nailed in place or in any other way
made permanent. We just stack and prop our creations next to a tree or large
rock. Second, only natural items can be used in the creation of a woodland
home. We don’t add anything man-made that would detract from the beauty of the
woods around it.
Be creative and see what you can come up with. We have made
tables and chairs, complete with acorn cap bowls and flower petal centerpieces.
We have made soft beds of leaves and stone walkways. We have used everything
from sticks, pine needles, bark, leaves and grass that we find on the ground
around us. Sometimes our woodland homes take us 15 minutes to build; some
elaborate creations have taken several days to finish. It is something everyone
in the family can work on and enjoy together.
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