IDEAS AND TIPS:
Step One:
Review pages 19 - 21 of the activity handbook.
Prepare your activity - There are great hints and tips and preparation ideas in the handbook.
Speak to other members of staff to get them involved.
Step Two:
Advertise the event COME AND JOIN US POSTER
Step Three:
Make sure you have collected, printed or have ordered all materials needed for the activities.
Step Four:
As shown in the handbook - Follow the instructions to make the activity an event and use the activity handbook to guide you.
IDEAS AND TIPS:
- Use the Discussion Cards and instructions to play games or spark conversation
- Listen to music
- Finish with a poem
- Discuss outings or their favourite garden
- Draw or Paint their special garden
- Discuss what would be in their special garden
- Use magazines to look for special gardens or cut out and make a collage of their special garden
- Word Search On A Gardening Theme
http://www.printactivities.com/Word_Search_Puzzles/Gardening-Word-Search.html#.V2Fmq6tllz8
Poetry that can be used for this topic:
http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitled/l/blebbrowningdesertedgarden.htm
http://poetry.about.com/od/20thcenturypoets/p/frost.htm
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/nature/garden/
Quotes, jokes and poetry
http://www.no-dig-vegetablegarden.com/gardening-jokes-gardening-quotes-garden-poems.html