Children at the nursery collected natural materials, such as leaves, stones, branches, pine cones, acorns, shells, and feathers, to use for the decorations on the doors. They spent several days searching the 100 Acre Woods, Boulder Forest, and Mousey Meadow, collecting the materials they needed. These are places they have named over the years and visit often to explore and construct fairy houses and forts.
Working in teams and individually the children glued the materials on the doors, making each a unique work of art. Once completed, the doors were given a protective coating and then installed at the base of trees on many of the town trails.
Our thanks go out to Brenda White, Suzanna Brown, and Karen Cook of Windy Hill Nursery, Ruth White and Bob Brown of the NLCC, and all the children at Windy Hill Nursery for building, decorating, and installing the Gnome Doors.