Guest Author - Melissa Waters

How to incorporation this holiday into your journaling day while planting some trees for our future.

Here are some journaling prompts to help you focus on the holiday of National Arbor Day and include your journal in it too:

1. Do you encourage or inspire people to plant, care for and commemorate trees in your neighborhood? Is so how?

2. Did you know you can buy a tree online? Why not buy a tree this year for Arbor Day and plant it in a special place that you can visit throughout the year. Where would you plant it? Would you journal under it when it got large enough? Could you sketch out the tree and the surroundings in your journal?

3. Where you live now, do you have trees around your residence? Were they there when you moved in? Or did you plant them?

4. How have trees or a tree impacted your life? Did you know that paper comes from trees unless you are writing on recycled paper that is.

5. Are you a supporter of The National Arbor Day Foundation? If not what do you support? Time? Money? Share with your journal how the support of something has enriched your life.

6. Have you ever cut down a tree? If so why? What did you do with it? If you've never cut down a tree, than how about have you ever planted one? If so what type of tree was it. Is it still thriving?

7. Where you live do the leaves of the trees around you turn colors in the fall? If so why not go out this spring and grab a green leave or budding branch and preserve a piece of it within your journal pages. Than when fall comes go back out and see if you can find the same type of leaf to put with your spring clippings. Journal the tree name if possible.

8. Tap root? Do you know what this term means? If not why not do some research and find out why and share with your journal. Cite all the references you used to find the answer.

9. What is your favorite tree? Why is this tree your favorite? Do you have one near you? If so why not make this your new journaling spot, unless of course it is on someone else's property.

Have a Happy Arbor Day and help keep the earth green.