Create your own ways to celebrate Australia and being Australian
Suggested National Wattle Day Activities
- 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
- Collect and arrange wattle in vases
- 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 or arboretum
- Join a tour to learn about indigenous uses of wattle
- Visit spring festivals and markets with a wattle theme
- Join in some folk dancing
- Organise an Australian play 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
- 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
- Cook with wattle seed or decorate cakes and cupcakes with yellow and wattle blossom
- Create painting or a poem that includes by wattle
- Sing songs or recite poems on wattle
- Cook food with wattleseed (here’s a recipe for pavlova (https://cherikoff.net/wattleseed-pavlova/) from Vic Cherikoff a pioneer of Australia’s wildfood industry) and learn about the history of eating wattleseed in Australia in modern times.