These poetry prompts provide some inspiration for writing that engage with the natural world, social justice, the world around us and spirituality.

This prompt guides you into observation and connection to birds through art. Birds are often seen as sacred, spiritual, and symbolic in many cultures and religions. Birds can also hold a lot of symbolism around healing and freedom.

This practice works to honor and possible redeem the use of stained glass art in church spaces. This art is focused on creating an image that represents healing.

This guided practice honors how religious trauma, like all trauma, is held in the body. This practices encourages a way to use art as an expression in regards to past religious experiences and connect that to the potential of what religious/spirituality experiences can be.

This shares some fun ideas on creating with kiddos in a way that helps them express themselves while creating connections.

Similar to the Light Art practice, this practices engages with light in an abstract way that connects to the world.

Splatter paint is a fantastic way of grounding to the present, expressing emotion, and doing so in an incredibly fun way.

This practice honors this earth-connection, which is also a way to connect to the entire world because trees sustain our clean air, fresh water, rainfall, most of the our animal species, and us.

Summer is also a time when connecting to nature can feel much more accessible. This practices centers this energy into connection with the wild world.

This practices honors the growth and energy of this season- connecting to color, all the things that are being born and emerging, and the wildly creative energy that comes in this season.

This practices centers into this season by honoring the color and physical expression of letting go that the trees model for us.

Needle art a beautiful form of art that can be so grounding and engage the sense is unique ways that art with paper, brush, and pen.

Sidewalk chalk is an accessible way to create in a natural environment, and it is a medium that is often easy to use for all ages.

This practice connects the two, understanding that quieting the mind enough to create is a skill that we often lose as adults (children innately see the world as a world they can engage with and create in), so music can be a centering way we shift our focus.

Art is a powerful social justice tool! This practice is really helpful to 1) connect ourselves to a specific issue we care about or want to learn more about, or 2) serve as a form of advocacy or protest.

This practice moves beyond simply going out in nature and encourages a deeper connection of the senses to the wild world by encouraging art inside of nature.

This practice moves behind creating what we see and encourages connecting with the natural world to see everything as art.

Flowers engage our senses through sight and smell, and they can boost our mood because they are simply so beautiful.

This practice centers into the healing properties of light. Sunlight boosts our mood, provides warmth, gives us energy, and heals our bodies and minds.

This practice also honors the need to connect to rest and stillness in this season. Art can be incredibly supportive during the many emotional and depressive experiences of the winter months.