Summer Nature Table

This is our beach-themed July nature table! 

Below a couple of wooden figures enjoy the beach surrounded by our 

nature treasures. Some of the shells are from the Müggelsee, a lake in Berlin, 

that we collected this year. The other seashells are gifts from friends and the shark tooth 

was a flea market find.  My daughter then added pink deco pebbles to the sand. 

Here we find a wooden heart to remind of the two greatest commandments: 

Love God and Love People. 

And the motivation behind them: God loves us. 

This is the whale from Jonah to remind us that life with God can be an adventure and that it's okay to make mistakes. Glass fish swim around the whale. My daughter added pink pebbles the water insisting that there are "rocks on the bottom of the ocean". 

Below my daughter puts the finishing touches on the nature table. She brought out the Godly Play statue of the cross that is also the Risen Jesus. 

And I had a postcard of Edvard Munch's "Girls on the Beach" 

that just seemed to fit.

School just got out here and we are enjoying the laziness and slower pace of summer. 

Hope that your summer is going well! 

Linked to The Magic Onions and Raising Memories