“Paradise is open to all kinds of HEARTS”
Strelitzia reginae Aiton ‘Mandela’s Gold’
On Monday we made seed tapes with the grade three class that comes to the Ladner Community Garden. We made so many seed tapes that I was getting worried we wouldn’t have the space to plant them. So when the seed tapes were done, I brought them home and laid them out on my dining room table to make sure they dried out from all the glue the children used. Yes, some children were a little zealous with the glue so I hope it doesn’t affect the seed germination. I looked over all the seed tapes and tallied the seeds.
The children used 979 seeds! Wow! Now that’s a lot of food for the food bank. That seemed like a lot of seeds but I sat down last night to see how much space we would need to plant them . If you remember from Mondays post I used…
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‘We’ve been very busy collecting to make a mud kitchen outside and at lunchtime today Miss Lowery and her mummy ‘Nessa’ put it all in position. We can use this space to explore all things muddy! Making mud mixtures, mud soup, mud stew, mud cakes and mud potions! This really helps our physical development, our knowledge of the world, communication and language and working together and sharing resources. Look at how much fun we’ve had already!…’
This is the second post in a series on projects to create playful landscapes, this one located in Mepal, near Ely, in Cambridgeshire.
Other posts of relevance:
Natural Play- ten tips for parents
Playful Landscape- Wensum Way, Fakenham, Norfolk
‘Free range’ children?- seven tips for successful garden play
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