Activities
Create your own ways to celebrate Australia and being Australian
Suggested National Wattle Day Activities
- Colour in your own Wattle Day badge
- Take a sprig of wattle or something gold and something green to your Mum and/or Dad
- Collect samples of wattle to decorate your classroom
- Plant wattle trees and shrubs around your school grounds every year
- Write a story or poem on what you think National Wattle Day is or what the day means to you
- Visit the local Botanic Gardens
- Folk dancing
- Organise a plays or poetry readings
- Sing wattle songs. Click here for words and music
- Hold your own Collectors Show to display and talk about anything that uses wattle as a design or is made from wattle
- Make your own National Wattle Day badge
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Write Acrostic Poetry
(Click on words above to see examples provided by a Year 6 student from St Francis Primary School, ACT)
Paint an old shirt the green and gold of the wattle and wear it on National Wattle Day
Organise a BBQ for National Wattle Day for family and friends
Try a painting, a poem, flower arrangement, art or craft activity
Permission is given to print, or download and print, the drawing below.
If you click here on a bitmap file you can download
(= approx 400k - hold shift key when clicking here)
Decorate the school or classroom
Sing songs or recite poems on wattle
Cook food with wattleseed (here's a recipe for wattleseed pavlova from a pioneer of Australia's wildfood industry, Vic Cherikoff) and learn about the history of eating wattleseed in Australia in modern times.