Imagine it’s a snowy day and you are out walking. You are wrapped up warm, and your boots crunch satisfyingly on the snow. The snow has been trodden down by other people’s feet. You reach a wooden farm gate. Each of the wooden bars is covered in snow. Beyond the gate is a field. Nobody has walked on the field. It’s covered in perfect, white, untouched snow.
You climb over the gate, knocking snow to the ground. Step across the snow, crunching through to the hard ground beneath. Looking behind, you can see the footprint trail that you have made. You reach a part of the field with a slope and decide to fall backwards. The snow feels soft when you land.
Lie back and look up at purple clouds. Snowflakes are falling down towards you. You feel them on your face, tingling against your skin. One lands near your eye and when you open your mouth, you catch one on your tongue.
The snow moulds round you and supports you. You stretch your arms and legs out to form a snow angel shape, sweeping them backwards and forwards.
It’s a little breezy, so the snow swirls downwards in spirals. It’s as if the snowflakes are sliding down to the ground on a giant helter-skelter. You watch the snow swirling down and it looks so much fun, that you decide that you’d like to float down like a snowflake too.
Breathing in, you feel yourself lifting out of your snow-angel shape and upwards. You watch snowflakes falling as you are carried up towards the purple clouds, then you find yourself lifted straight up inside a cloud’s chilly centre.
The cloud is made of tiny pieces of ice which make your face tingle. You are surrounded by purple light. You feel yourself being lifted higher into the cloud and icicles form on your clothes. When you next breathe out, you begin to sink back down again. Soon you drop slowly out of the cloud, bringing a flurry of snowflakes with you. With your arms and legs stretched out, feel yourself floating gently downwards in a slow spiral, surrounded by snowflakes.
As you float and spiral downwards, turning gently over and over, you can see the shape of the snow angel you made earlier. Float closer to the field, slowly tipping over onto your back and land softly, fitting exactly into your snow angel shape.
Lie still, feeling supported by the snow. From Goldfinches, Daffodils and Sunshine: More relaxations for lively kids by Maria Oliver, illustrated by Ben and Steph Grandis
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