For a children’s song try “The Green Grass Grows All Around.” Check here for lyrics: lyrics from KIDiddles
INTRODUCTORY DISCUSSION
For a more contemporary song try "If A Tree" by Bruce Cockburn
For More Tree Themed Fun check each of these pages out...
Many countries celebrate Arbor Day but the date varies, although it usually takes place in the spring when the weather is perfect for planting trees. This Theme Day is great to do around Arbor Day but it can be done any time you plan on visiting a forest for a hike or a picnic as it just celebrates trees!
Print out the Family Theme Day Plannerand decide which activities you’d like to do and in what order.
Children's Rhymes:
The Spanish village of Mondoñedo held the first documented arbor plantation festival in the world organized by its mayor in 1594. Arbor Day originated in North America in Nebraska in 1872. It is a day that encourages people to plant and care for trees. Check here to see when it is celebrated where you live:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Alfred Joyce Killmer
Arbor Day/ Trees
Copyright 2016. Family Theme Days. All rights reserved.
Here is a famous poem about trees (perhaps you could get your children to illustrate the poem):
SONGS:
Photo: C. Wright