Kolemorgan

Introduction to Gardening 

• Why are we here? What are vegetables? When do we garden? 

• Why not just buy them? Why do we grow our own? 
• What else do we do with plants?; medicine, cloth making, dyeing cloth, painting 
• What else can we do in our garden? crafts, plants/produce/flower sale, drinks at school fair, herb bags 
• Recording our adventures 
• Tool safety and garden rules, using tools safely 
• Communication and discussion, partnership and teamwork 

Games 

• With a blindfold on use your other senses to identify different vegetables 
• Eat fruit or vegetables blindfolded and use sensory science to describe them 
• Be part of a Bee colony and pollinate some flowers
  

 Garden Growth 

• Make sweet pea wigwam 
• Make willow den 
• Make sunflower circle 
• Make scarecrow, tree hangings 
• Make bean tunnel and weave supporting patterns 

Mulching and Compost 

• What do plants need to grow? 
• What is a weed? 
• How do we tend and nurture our plants? 
• Who lives in the compost? 
• Where is our compost? 
• Mulching and Compost 

 Garden journals and writing 

• Decisions and discussions about gardening 
• Reflective thoughts on what we have done 
• Planning and design 
• Ideal school garden 
• Article for the school newsletter/blog 
• Seed spacing and bed planning 
• Measure plant growth and yield 
• Photo diary 
• Introduce parents and carers to the garden 

Container planting 

• What else can we grow things in? 
• Where else can we grow things? 
• How else can we grow things? Windowsills, walls and fences 

 Herb Circle or Spiral 

• Culinary herbs for the school kitchen 
• Scented herbs and their uses 
• Medicinial herbs 

Specific Beds and areas 

• Rainbow Garden. Build a rainbow coloured flower garden using annuals 
• Cut Flowers. Build a garden focusing on cut flowers 
• Three sisters bed (beans, corn, squash) Build a bed based on stories from Native American folklore 
• Pizza Bed. Build a bed focused on healthy pizza 
• Edible flowers. Build a bed filled with flowers that can be wholly or partially eaten 
• Sensory garden. Build a bed that appeals to all of the senses 
• Circle Time. Build an area for circle/teaching time using natural materials 
• Reflective and Creative space. Build an area for thinking 

Seasons and Weather 

• Set up a weather station and monitor and record activity 
• Plan and build a sundial or some shadowsticks to look at the sun’s journey around the school 
• Plan and build a weathervane or some windflags and whirligigs 

Recycling 

• Plastic bottle greenhouse. Get the whole school involved in building a pop bottle greenhouse 
• Make a mini greenhouse and lightboxes for window sill growing 
• Weaving. Using found and recycled objects weave a pattern into a chainlink fence or create an individual woven object using sticks 

Wildlife 

• Bioblitz. Identification and analysis 
• Attracting benefical wildlife to the garden 
• Bug Hotel. Build some accommodation for winter 

Urban Agriculture 

• Growing space in a city 
• Pollution and rubbish – barriers 
• Food for Free 
• Benefits of ‘Greening the Grey’
  

Garden Art and Sculpture 

• Make windchimes and seed protectors from found objects (and scrapstore materials) 
• Use clay to make natural faces 
• Decorate your fence or wall with sculpture from recycled bottle lids 
• Build a willow sculpture or dome 
• Craft some art to identify boundaries 

Science in the garden 

• Soil testing and nutrients 
• Sustainability and Permaculture 
• Food Chains and Food Webs 
• Parts of a flower 
• Plant lifecycle 

Wet weather activities 

Seed packets and catalogues 

• Look at different types of seed packet and the information on them 
• Choose our favourite packet 
• Design your own seed packet 

Badges and Labels 

• create and decorate name badges based on our favourite things around growing and eating 
• create and decorate names badges for our plants 
• create infographic boards to describe gardening to other people