Monday, September 26, 2016

Get Creative With Garden Sculpture USA

By Anthony McDonald


The time has come for people to start spending hours outside again. Physical fitness in America is at an all-time low, and our children are showing the signs. Teaching young people to be creative by making our own garden sculpture USA is an excellent place to begin improving health and well being in ourselves and our children.

Scrappers often become artists, and this can start from an accidental find of some old barn full of scrap metal. A welder and a helmet are all one needs to begin a whole new, albeit noisy and potentially messy hobby. However, for making artwork that one intends to leave in the yard, metal certainly holds up a whole lot better than ceramic or glass.

Old antiques can be displayed in such a fashion, and most everyone has some old worn out tools laying about. Hard rakes, hoes, and other scraps can become animals, insects, or birds displayed in the yard. It is certainly possible for some pieces to be bought from high volume stores, or even online, but displaying something made ourselves grants a much greater sense of pleasure.

Art brings families closer together. The sense of accomplishment that one gets from completing a project is a boon in life no matter what the age of the artist. Parents who continuously encourage their young ones to be creative, and display their creations along with their own, raise more emotionally stable, creative, and happy adults.

Sometimes old artwork gets lost in those gardens now overgrown. These lost pieces are sometimes found decades later when a new yard art adventurer moves into the area. Finding a piece of artwork decades old and unique to some unknown creator sometimes becomes a treasured possession to one who also spends time making fancy hedgerows, and these pieces are deemed a gift.

Our current culture of indoor living has left us fat, lethargic, and unmotivated toward creative expression. Yards have become a forgotten zone, and we tend to think of them as a chore rather than a place of gathering. Anyone who grows food and flowers is different, and those who scatter art throughout the yard are in a class all their own.

In fact, many might regard boring yards as meaning boring people live there, and often they are right. Our yards, like our cars and our homes, should be a testament to the people inside. Americans have gotten too used to staring at the talking box in the living room, and they have forgotten to show the world how special we are through our independent and creative nature.

With a focus on health and happiness, many families are turning off the TV and heading outside. Growing vegetables and flowers is just the beginning when the family also engages in creative endeavors. Just about anyone can show off their creative side for their friends and neighbors to enjoy while also improving their own physical health, and recycling things left around the house when one sees beautiful potential rather than just rustic old garbage.




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