Preparation
Find a suitable outdoor space where young people will find enough plants to give them inspiration.
You may wish to gather some examples of different poetry styles before you run the activity with your students or children, or you could ask each student/child to find one example to present to the group. If you're having a go at home as a family, you could do your research together.
Equipment
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Examples of different styles of poem
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Access to a garden, woodland, park or other outside space
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Pencils/pens
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Notepad/paper
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Optional: magnifying glass to look closely at flowers, leaves and insects
Useful links
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Use our flower structure diagram so students/children can identify the different parts of a flower in their poems.
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Find out how different flowers have been used in Shakespeare plays.
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Discover the hidden meanings behind some flowers which could provide inspiration to budding poets.
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Use our spotter guides to help students/children identify different seasonal flowers, wildlife, tree leaves and flower shapes.
Video inspiration
Our RHS Young Ambassador, George, is a huge fan of nature and poetry and shows us how he gets inspiration for his work from his garden.
You could show this video to your students/children as inspiration before they try to create their own poem.