Objects That Symbolize Benefits to Human, Wildlife, and the Planet Small cereal box (or other food container): Trees provide food for wildlife and humans Fan: Trees cool the air Umbrella: Trees provide shade from the sun Coffee filter: Tree roots filter out pollutants from rain and runoff Aspirin…

Rise Up for Trees is adapted from the activity How Many Are Standing? (p. 35 in Everyone Wins! by Josette and Sambhava Luvmour, New Society Publishers, 2007). Team Up for Trees is adapted from a cooperative camp game. Choose which game to use each time the group gathers. After the first workshop,…

Category: Now I Can Breathe 100. Trees block these life-giving rays to cool the air beneath their branches. (What is sunlight?) 200. One large tree provides four people with a day’s worth of this essential gas, critical for life on planet Earth. (What is oxygen?) 300….

Moving as quietly as you can, sit or lie down in a comfortable position and close your eyes. (pause) Take a deep breath. (pause) Notice how your body feels. Notice how your mind feels. Take a couple of long, slow breaths, in and out, in and out, and begin to let go and relax your body and mind.

Standing like a tree (stand straight and tall) With my roots dug down (stomp each foot into ground with the words “dug” and “down”) My branches wide and open (extend arms overhead and stretched out) Come down the rain (wiggle fingers as if they are raindrops) Come down the sun (hold arms overhead…