Breath of Our Earth

This week found Emma and me working on a project from The Earth Child's Handbook by Brigid Ashwood. Emma had been looking through it and had decided she wanted to work on an air mobile with cute little birds and a cloud on it. Thankfully I had some white card stock on hand so this worked out for us.

I found this to be an interesting conversation to have with her not only explaining how air works from a mundane point of view but how it works from a more magical standpoint. We discovered how air and wind formed. Then we talked about how air is associated with the east. What astrological signed are associated with it and how people use air in different ways magically.

Little blue birds.

So here's what we used in our project.

2 pages of white card stock
crayons, markers or colored pencils
scissors
string
hole punch

After we scanned and printed the pages out onto card stock Emma colored the birds and clouds in. Cut the birds and cloud out then use the hole punch on the birds and cloud. Attach the birds to the cloud and hang the mobile where you'd like. Preferably where there's some wind!

It's a simple project but Emma had a ton of fun doing it and it was great that she picked it out. I like that she took the initiative to look through the book and asked to do the project on her own. It pleases me that she's taking an interest in our beliefs!

Emma's finished mobile.