Prince Charles is keen for children to get out and about this half term and connect with nature. I think this is a great idea🙂👍.
Just as children need to learn to be empathic towards others so they need to learn to appreciate trees,🌲🌳 flowers 🌼🌻🌺🌹🏵💮🌸 insects 🕸🕷🐞🐝🐜🐛, birds🐦, hedgerows🌿🌿🌿🌿 and the wildlife🐿🐾🐌 that live there. Then they might learn not to stuff sweet wrappers🍬 and other rubbish 🍫into people's bushes because they'll realise that this can harm wildlife and they won't wish to do that. They'll empathise with sentient and non-sentiment beings. Equally, they'll learn not to chase birds in parks which causes them stress especially if the birds are young e.g. ducklings. 😪
The first challenge Prince Charles set was to plant seeds from fruit 🍏🍐🍑🍒🍊🍋or vegetables 🌶🍅🍆you've had for your lunch. Challenge 1 (Monday) is one I've wanted to do for some time but haven't managed. I always end up throwing the seeds or stones in the food bin for the dustman instead of planting them. 😪 So Prince Charles has given me the impetus to finally plant the stones I was saving!
I went out into my garden and dug a few holes in the soil and planted some stones from a fruit I had for my lunch a few days back. I know where I planted them so I'll be keeping an eye👀 on them! I did manage, a few years back, to plant a tiny tree🌲. Indeed, I have a photo📷 on this very blog of me doing just that. Trouble is I lost track of the tree. I knew where I'd planted it but it wasn't there later (dead or alive) even though I was checking! It never grew big enough and was overtaken by hedgerow. But the birds 🐦 love the hedgerow 🌿so I stopped worrying about the tree. I'm hoping that these fruit stones will do better!
The #PoWNatureChallenge 6 tasks are released daily at @clarencehouse on Instagram and Twitter and the Prince of Wales's website.
If you want birds to visit your garden then a hedgerow and a bucket of water entices them in. 🙂🐦
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