Spring is a time of year for branches of soft willow catkins.
If anyone has a vase of stems decorating a surface somewhere please feel free to use the image in complimentary activities - grey/white dough, with yellow glitter and trimmed synthetic wool type fibres can recreate larger catkins for display, size, texture comparrisons and photographs.
Willow catkins image
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