This resource shows you how to make a Spring Wreath for your door or window. Take a walk out in nature, take the time to catch your breath, look around to positively affect your wellbeing and collect some of your resources and then later, craft away alone or with family members to make a beautiful wreath for your home.
Whilst using this nature activity to inspire learning, know you are helping you and your family's wellbeing like this:
1) Get Active - you will need to go on a walk to collect your resources for this activity.
2) Keep Learning - Look online and learn how to cut the branches you need without damaging the trees and collect all manner of flower and leaf foliage. Remember to cut long stalks on the flowers and foliage where possible so that you can wrap them together in wet tissue if you want your wreath flowers to last longer.
3) Be Mindful - Look in detail at the flowers and leaves that you pick. Fully engage your senses. What do the petals/leaves/berries feel like, smell like, look like close up? How many petals/berries/colours are there really? Remember that these resources are finite and also necessary for insect and animal life, so choose to pick only what you need and to leave some for the rest of nature too. Using our senses to connect with what we collect helps us understand how amazing and beautiful those things are and remind us how precious they are for all life. Why not also plant wild seeds in thanks and preparation for the coming year - your wreath can be used many times over.
4) Practice Kindness - why not make one for another member of your family or a friend as a gift to share the knowledge.
5) Think Community - Post a picture of your final outcome and/or any tips you might learn along the way.