• An empty tissue box
• White Paint (the kind you put on the walls)
• Poster Paint (minimum red, blue, green, yellow, purple)
• A black pen or pencil (optional)
• Glue
• Things to decorate with i.e. pompoms, stickers, glitter and things that your child associates with the various elements, make sure to remember to leave an offering of bread if you take anything from a living plant.

To make sure that your poster paint will go on the laminated tissue box paint on a coat of normal decorating paint. This also allows your older child to draw on representations of the four elements so they can paint them in individually. Stars, flames, bodies of water, mountains or plants, clouds etc.

If your child isn’t old enough to do this I suggest painting one side blue, one side yellow, one side green, one side red. You can pain the top your childs favourite colour or purple to represent the spirit.

Make use of pompoms, glitter and other items of decoration to make it personal to you and your child. You can even stick on small stones, twigs, bits of tissue paper to represent water, anything they want really but try and keep it nature based and relevant to the element.

Discuss with your child what each colour and symbol represents in terms of the elements and see what they associate with these colour (both magickal and mundane).

Let everything dry and you can place this on your altar or your child’s altar and use it to store bits and pieces like feathers and what not. You can encourage your child to bring items from walks and trips out that makes them think of the elements or nature and store them in this lovely box, just make sure to recycle the contents and return them outside and to the earth at some time.