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| Welcome everyone! I would like to share with you some fun ideas, crafts, and rites you and your children can do together. Feel free to use then any time you would like although they are best done on or around the dates provided. THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR This is the cycle of the seasons/ the cycle of nature. Traditionally there are eight festivals, celebrated by magic users, celebrating the turning points of the year. You can constuct a wheel with your children You will need a paper plate, a poster board, a staight pin, crayons, markers, and etc... 1. Let your kids decorate the poster board with drawings of seasons (snow flakes, leaves etc...) 2. Now mark a dot in the center of the plate and draw eight lines through it, making eight "pie slices" 3. In each slice draw a picture representing each festival. You can also include the name of the festival. *See below for festivals and ideas for the wheel. 4. Let your children color the plate and tell them about each drawing. 5. Now pin the plate to the poster board and hang within the reach of your children. THE FESTIVALS The following are some ideas and crafts you can do with your children. I suggest that you buy a quality scap book to use as your child's "Book of Shadows" and to record all their activities, dreams, and spells. SAMHAIN October 31 SAMHAIN means summer's end. This is the celebration of the start of winter and the night of the dead. Tell your children a story about one of your deseased relitives. (maybe a grand mother you loved) Then go Trick or Treating!!! In european traditions the season was marked by children dressed up and demanding a treat. Trick or Treat is a way for your children to come to terms with their darker side, and the general unreliability of life. Dress them up with face paint and black clothes. *You may want to put reflective tape on their backs *Avoid witch hats and monster masks - Witches are nature worshipers, not devil worshipers! SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION: Pumpkins, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, figures of spiders, snakes, and find your childs first cauldron YULE December 22 Also called Christmas or the Winter Solstice This is the celebration of the return of the Sun. Decorate an evergreen tree or Christmas tree. This tree is sacred to the Goddess, for she never dies, so too does this tree remain green all year full of life. You and your children can decorate your tree with strings of popcorn and cranberries, orange slices, apple slices, gold stars, pointsettas, holly leaves, reindeer and other horned animals to symbolise the God, St. Nicolas, pine cones, misteltoe, ivy, nuts, pentacles, suns, moons, and red; green; and gold ribbons. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION: A bare branch to decorate as your child's first wand, your child's first pentacle, stones, berries, holly, and misteltoe. IMBOLC Feburary 2 Also called Candlemas. It is the celebration of the coming of spring. Make St. Valentine's Day cards with your children to send to all your reletives. You can paint them, color, glue, use glitter, paper hearts, stickers, and etc... SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION: White feathers, cresent moons, small dolls, white stones SPRING EQUINOX March 21 Also called Ostara or Easter and is a celebration of the first day of spring. Decorate easter eggs. Eggs are a symbol of fertility and of the world. After you and your children decorate them, hide them, and then find them. These egg hunts originated from the Goddess Eostre, in whose honor eggs were hidden and found - symbolising mating and fertility. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION Ornamental eggs, figures of chickens, rabbits, feathers, spring flowers, and find your child's first sacred bell BELTANE April 30 This is a celebration of the marriage between the God and Goddess. It is derived from a Druid fire festival. Dress yourself and your children as the king and queens of the May. Make crowns from paper and decorate with lots of glitter. Use bubble gum machine rings to dress up too. Then go on a picnic and strut your stuff. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION Ribbons, feathers, late spring flowers, white lace MIDSUMMER June 22 Also called the Summer Solstice. This is the celebration of the turning point, the beginning of summer. Make a rose necklace as your childrens first "love spell". Use a needle and red thread. Then thread the needle through the middle of the rose bud's base. You can also roll the petals of the rose up and thread through it like a bead. Hang to dry. Then let them wear the necklaces. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION Sea shells, roses, figures of crabs, butterflies, spirals and find your child's first challice LAGHNASADH July 31 Also called Lammas or August eve. It is the celebration of the beginning of harvest season. Make a corn dolly with your children. The dolly was traditionaly made from the last sheaf of corn cut down. It was made every year to preserve the Corn Spirit. Take a few stalks of corn and bind them with red ribbons. The ears stick out as head, arms, and feet. Or you could brade the husks and bind them. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION Poppies, wheat, anything gold, figures of the sun AUTUMN EQUINOX September 21 It is the celebration of the first day of autumn. You can do this traditional spell with your children on any night around this time of year. When you and your children see the first star come out say: "Star light, star bright first star I see tonight I wish I may, I wish I might have my wish I wish tonight" Then make your wishes and stay out until you see the next star come out. SCRAP BOOK COLLECTION Apple rings, nuts, twigs, mushrooms,autumn leaves I hope this was somewhat helpfull to you! If you would like further information about teaching the craft to your children and would like more spells and projects to do with your witchlings please e-mail me any time. I also am available for counsil and to teach through e-mail or in a private room on yahoo chat. Thank you for your time, Blessings!!! |
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