I love making things out of mother nature I think it really connects us with her energy. For this Beltane we are borrowing the beautiful flowers that are first to appear in the wild during this time of year to make bracelets. This simple beautiful fun craft is great for kids and adults. Bracelets have been around for 7,000 years archaeologists have traced the first bracelets down to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The first bracelets were made of braided grass and shells the people would take what the Goddess provided around them and create from there. Later around 2000 B.C. they started using gold, silver, bronze and even semiprecious stones. Overtime the more decorative and fancier your bracelet the more wealth the person was believed to have. So as you can see the tradition of not only using nature to adorn our bodies has been around forever so has the process of decorating your body with flowers to honor the Deities. From making and wearing flower wreath crowns on their head to simply placing a lone flower behind their ear. So as you can see the tradition of not only using nature to adorn our bodies has been around forever so has the process of decorating your body with flowers to honor the Deities. From making and wearing flower wreath crowns on their head to simply placing a lone flower behind their ear. In Rome many wear flowers to honor the Goddess Flora who is the Goddess of the springtime and of all plant life. You can see many statues of her still throughout Italy with either a crown of flowers on her head or holding a bouquet of flowers. Floriography named after the Goddess Flora is the language and symbolism of flowers. This form of communication has been around for thousands of year through many different cultures. The Japanese call this form of cryptology Hanakotoba since the 7th century. During Victorian times people would create flower arrangements and deliver them to neighbors. These arrangements were called “talking bouquets” because depending on what you want to “say” would be the flowers you would give. For this craft we will be using wild flowers that we gathered growing along our hike. I recommend gathering at least a dozen for each bracelet you plan to make. Take three flowers together while holding them in your hand by the stems begin to braid them about three or four times. Add another flower to one side braiding it two or three more times then add a flower to the opposite side of the braid. Keep braiding and adding more flowers until the bracelet is long enough to wrap around a wrist. Once your bracelet is long enough, wrap it around your wrist intertwine the ends of the last stems with the head of the starter flowers into the first part of the braid to complete the bracelet.
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As a mom of three boys who go to public school I started to notice that some things were not being taught in detail so I decided to create lessons for them. Many of these lessons cover science, history and of information about Paganism. I share crafts for the all different holidays and cultures as ways that they can learn and have fun at the same time.
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