Tanabata, (七夕), the Star Festival, is one of the five Japanese seasonal festivals (五節句, gosekku).

Easter always provides fun and creative opportunities for children to make ikebana arrangements.

We used flowering branches and flowers foraged from our local neighbourhood and from our garden to create a Hinamatsuri arrangement.

This year we celebrated our first Valentine's Day in Belgium.

To celebrate the similarities between our old home, and new, we decided to create an ikebana celebrating Three Kings Day.

After a long hiatus, moving countries and slowly settling into a new life, my daughters and I are back creating weekly ikebana arrangements.

This year to help us celebrate our final year in Madrid, the children made ikebana arrangements for Los Reyes Magos.

This year we decided to create a Thanksgiving ikebana arrangement using self-made vases.

This year, to celebrate Hina-Matsuri, we decided on a Kabu-wa-ke style arrangement........ with a twist.

To celebrate Carnival my youngest daughter decided to create a colourful and whimsical ikebana arrangement.

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, my daughters decided to create an arrangement together, to celebrate their sisterly love for one another.

This year we added a new Christmas tradition to our mix of Spanish and Australian Christmas traditions.

This year we decided to create a Thanksgiving table arrangement using some of the pumpkins leftover from Halloween.

One of my daughters favourite Japanese Festivals is Tanabata, the Star Festival, held on the 7th July.

Celebrating Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day) with an ikebana arrangement using iris and origami Koi Noburi.

Cracking good fun at Easter with an Easter inspired ikebana lesson for children.

The lure of traditional Hina-matsuri flowers was too much for my two enthusiastic ikebana daughters.

We decided to add some colour to our house by creating a Carnival inspired ikebana arrangement.

I’m always after sneaky ways to encourage my daughters to practice mathematics- this time using Kakei to understand angles and gradients.

With Christmas just around the corner it's the perfect time for children to create something festive to decorate their homes.