Remember the joy of cloud watching when you were little?
Or those curious discoveries that happen when children are given the time and space to explore, notice and make?
Perhaps you’re looking for a unique and playful experience to share with your kids these school holidays.
Seeds of Weather Wisdom: Art, Nature and Feel Your Weather® is a family-friendly nature and art experience for children and their grown-ups at a beautiful regenerative property called The Sanctuary in Yundi.
Created and hosted by Kimberly Harding, paediatric occupational therapist and founder of Feel Your Weather, this experience brings together nature connection, creativity and emotional wisdom in a playful and tangible way.
What will we do?
Together, we’ll slow down, look up and notice.
We’ll wander through nature, notice the weather and sky above us, and forage for fallen leaves, grasses and other natural treasures.
Then we’ll use what we find to create art with sunshine through the magical process of cyanotype printing.
Families can explore different weather-inspired art invitations, create clouds and skies, or simply follow their own curiosity. There is no right way to create and no art experience is needed.
While the sunshine works its magic, families are invited to bring a packed morning tea and enjoy some time in nature before we reveal our prints together.
Each artwork will then help grow our Blue Sky Gallery, a temporary outdoor exhibition of sunlight, weather and wonder hanging amongst the trees.
No two skies will be the same.
What does weather have to do with feelings?
Children already notice weather.
They draw suns, rainbow and clouds. They watch storms roll in. They feel wind on their faces and rain on their skin.
Feel Your Weather® builds on this natural curiosity to explore another kind of weather: the weather we feel inside.
Through playful stories, art and conversations that focus on noticing, families will be invited to wonder about emotions together. How might happiness feel like sunshine? What happens when an Angry Thunderstorm arrives? Can feelings change and pass, just like the weather?
This isn’t a lesson about getting rid of big feelings or making children calm.
It’s an invitation to notice together and know that All Weather Is Welcome in Our Sky™.
What will we take home?
Families will leave with their 4 x original cyanotype artworks (per person) and simple ideas for continuing weather noticing and conversations about feelings at home.
Children will also receive a handmade Happy Sun made from recycled seed paper containing native golden everlasting seeds, ready to plant at home and grow into little “Happy Suns” in the garden. These will bring the beautiful native Painted Lady Butterfly to your garden.
The experience is designed to plant small seeds of emotional literacy, creativity and lifelong nature connection, helping families explore how the weather around us can support understanding the weather inside us.
Our hope is that you leave feeling a little more connected to your child, the natural world and perhaps even your own emotional sky.
Slow down. Look up. Notice. Create.
And remember, No Weather Lasts Forever™
