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Summer
Sun is hot shade is not
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Exploring and Learning: Study summer solstice. Why do the pagans light bon
fires (because they like to party?) Longest day of the year
turning the wheels to the wanning half of the year. Or rocking away
from the sun. Become a stream keeper, learn about how to look after a stream. watch wild life without disturbing the life. draw a line around a puddle of water and watch it evaporate. study the water cycle and clouds, rainbows etc. Learn about cycles of nature. watch the stars and study them. study the plants how each is different and what each needs to survive. How plants and animals need each other to survive. experiment making a fire using a magnifying glass. Be careful not to burn yourself or the environment. make a homemade compass. make maps. treasure maps. Its fun. walk 10 steps south from the Y shaped tree. turn east ...
Lammas midway between summer and Autumn. First fruits and wheat are ready to be harvested. We bake bread and give our first pickings to the Goddess or Friends. Blessed are we that give.
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Crafts: pressing flowers for cards, letters, frames, pictures... make a nature chest. Gathering all sorts of items. different roots, sticks, rocks, seeds, feathers, pinecones, shells... make a batik make sun wheels play with clay and dry in the sun make rock paintings and rock sculptures. create a fading picture. make a cut out, a silhouette and place on coloured paper. Keep it in the sun so the coloured paper fades but where the silhouette is it doesn't fade. Interesting affect. you can use leaves or flowers etc. make boats with quarter peeled orange skin. make sails with tooth picks and paper and blow to race. make stick creatures with pinecones glue what ever you can find... squash play dough into a big round lid and find things from the forest or garden to stick in it. make a little garden on a lid. for little kids. make a bird bath find shells and make shell
creatures. or a mobile or necklace, a special shell bowl, to put your best
shells in. a soft fabric bowl with glued shells round the outer rim.
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