Your second invitation for the month is a creative prompt - something tactile, where you can use your hands, along with your other senses, and create something inspired by wild elements you have access to, and the wild in your heart. Approach these invitations with the openness of a child - do not hold back, allow yourself to find wonder, be curious, ask “what if…” and “I wonder how…”, experiment, and embrace this time of play. Often the hardest part of these prompts will be to give yourself compassion. Extend the same kindness to yourself here that you would to a child - do not judge or restrict or minimise the importance of taking time to create in this way. Your wild heart needs this.
Remember, also, that this is your creative invitation for the month. Think about how you would like to extend this past a simple one and done session (some of the invitations lend themselves more readily to this, some may be a simple repetition of the process and see what evolves, some may require imagination to extend it over the month).
I always love to see your creations - please share them, or send a link in the comments, or you can always email me! I want to celebrate your wild creative play.
Creative invitation
Make a flatlay of your word for the week using natural items, or items that you find fill you with wonder. It could be a good opportunity to use up some items you have around the house (a bunch of flowers ready to compost?), things you can find in your garden, or goodies you picked up on a local walk or adventures far away. Try using twigs, leaves, nuts, seeds, stones, crystals,
fruits and berries. I would have used some mushrooms, but I was all out! Think about how you can layer items to create magic - a stick with a flower petal to create the letter P is delightful, but how about adding a different, smaller flower in the middle of the petal for the ‘cut out’ in the loop?
If you want to create a little animation of your work, I suggest creating the word in its entirety first, then photograph, remove the last letter, photograph, remove the second last letter, photograph and so on, until you are just left with the surround (if you made one). Then you can use a simple program to create little gifs! You can use the free version of Canva (I will pop a little screen capture in here on how to do that!), video editing software if you have it, or you can go to Giphy.com and upload your photos to create.
A bit of fun!
Using Canva to create a GIF