What you can do – activities for all

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 parents
• 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.