🎄 Decorate baubles with First Nation designs, either draw, paint or use First Nation artwork papers to decorate a bauble. Use our printable Deadly Bauble template to make your own.
🤶🏾 Bake some Wattleseed Ginger shapes using traditional First Nation flavours. Baking biscuits is always an engaging way for children to learning about measurement, to develop literacy skills in reading and speech and while also deepening motor skills. For this great recipe, head to The School Mum blog. Wattleseed is a versatile and uniquely Australian spice with its strong coffee, chocolate and hazelnut aroma and flavour.
You can buy ground Wattleseed from Indigenous owned business, Indigiearth here.
Use your Aboriginal Christmas Dough Cutters to make the most beautiful biscuits adorned with stunning Aboriginal art imprints. Included with every set is a Christmas Tree, Bauble and Star dough cutters that all feature artwork by Russell Brown, a proud Mara and Garawa man. You also get your own Wattle Seed Gingerbread Recipe Card to keep.
These cutters can also be used in play dough, or with salt dough or air dry clay to make stunning Christmas ornaments.
🎅🏾 Paint seed pods with deadly First Nation designs and hang on your tree. Head out and collect some seed pods with your nearest and dearest, ones with a smooth surface will work best. Get the paints, glitter or collage out alongside some inspirational First Nations artworks to really make your seed pods shine.
Come back and research what seed pods you collected and see if you can find out the local language name for that plant and if it has any uses for food, fibre or medicine.
Your Japily Symbol Flashcards or Wooden Aboriginal Flashcards could be used in this activity for children to investigate and think about what symbols they could include on the pods that have meaning and connection for them.
🧑🏾🎄 Use air dry clay or polymer clay with symbol stamps to make tree ornaments. Our Japily Symbol Stamps & Flashcards are perfect for this activity! They make a meaningful and connected gift or are just gorgeous for display in your home or learning space.
When we made ours at home with our children, we spoke about the different symbols and their meanings. Our children then selected a symbol that they felt represented Christmas for them and stamped it in the air dry clay to make a beautiful keepsake for years to come.
What a wonderful gift to send home with children to give to their families that will ignite conversations about the meaning and use of symbols for Aboriginal peoples.
🎁 Listen to or sing Christmas carols in First Nations language, here is a list of websites that you can listen to Christmas carols sung in a range of First Nation languages from around Australia.
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