The simple yet beautiful helicopter seed, also known as sycamore seed (I’m in the UK and the Acer pseudoplatanus is called a sycamore tree. In the US its know as a Sycamore Maple … more commonly called a maple tree).
A great nature toy for generations of children, wonderfully tactile to touch, beautiful to look at and rather lovely to craft with.
Apply a thin coat of metallic pearl paint to highlight the wing texture of each helicopter seed, leaving the richer seed head untouched.
The seeds can then be carefully glued to a pale cotton thread and attached to a stick to hang on the wall.
Use strong PVA (tacky) glue which will dry clear.
Add a loop of garden twine and your decoration is finished.
They look lovely, and so easy, we rarely get many of these as my boy like to actually make them be helicopters,so I end up spending more time chasing after them!!
This is so effective, love that nature provides us with the tools for art.
Fabulous photography,you must have a top notch camera.
Angela
Oh what a clever idea, and it looks so good.
Love this – great idea, looks really different.
How very clever. Love this
We don’t seem to have any around here
what a beautiful craft x
Such pretty seeds, the wall decoration looks lovely.
Not sure I could persuade mine to craft with these as they have too much fun launching them into the air
We used to collect loads of these when I was younger. We just loved watching them float down when you threw them up.
That’s a great craft and brings autumn inside 🙂
What a beautiful idea, I love it.
What a lovely craft idea! We went on the hunt for these just the other day. We didn’t find any, though, so we must go looking again.
We have so many of these trees in my neighborhood, it looks like it’s snowing for several days during the spring each year!
How very pretty, I love creative things using natural materials like this 🙂
#loveyourhome
What a really good idea
Oh wow what a cute idea, very creative and it looks great!
what a fab idea, I just love this! #loveyourhome
Just have to say it. Those are maple seed pods not sycamore lol.
Just have to say … I’m in the UK (Britain) and here it’s called a Sycamore Tree …lol