Summer holidays are the perfect time to test activities or discover sites! This year, with my 7-year-old daughter, we signed up for a Wild Basketry workshop at La Frênaie Eco-camping in La Grève sur Mignon.

We are welcomed by Anaïs, one of the nature animators of La Frênaie. After an introduction to basketry, she explains the objectives and the course of the session. We have 2 hours to braid a fish and a star from elements gathered in the environment of the campsite.

We start by discovering the basic principles of basket weaving : define the shape, install the "ribs", the supports for the future weaving, weave the elements... Flexible branches, harder elements, leaves, plants... And off we go, armed with our pruning shears to harvest the different plant species that will be used to create our works : hazelnut, willow, plantain, cattail, bindweed, etc. The lively little walk on the paths of the campsite is like a treasure hunt.

Here we go…
It's time to get started and apply the valuable introductory explanations. For children, the presence and help of an adult is mandatory and necessary.
Meanwhile, Anaïs explains to us how to make a vegetable cord from the cattail (prepared upstream by the supervising team): a helping hand to take. We twist, we roll, we twist, we roll and you get a strong cord that can be used as rope or weaving.

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Our advice +

Plan time in the afternoon to extend your experience and complete your works while the plant essences are still usable.

You can plan your picnic and stay at the eco-camping.

And we resume our masterpieces in the making...
12:45 p.m.: Anaïs is already announcing the end of the workshop. How time flies… But we haven't finished our works?!!

We came home with the rest of our plant harvest. And we weaved a few hours after lunch to arrive at a wild and rustic result: 1 fish and 1 star each.
A great experience and pride in the finished work! Take advantage of your stay in the Marais Poitevin to discover the nature that surrounds you and bring back in your backpack the unique souvenir made by you.

Namely : La Frênaie eco-camping offers a wide schedule of activities and nature discovery events throughout the summer season: sensory, scientific and technical, playful, artistic approaches.

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Written on 03/08/2022
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