Welcome to the Children in Permaculture Activities section
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Holistic Planning

Theme:
A. Introducing permaculture
B. Living nature
C. Design
D. Growing food
E. Built environment and resource use
F. Social permaculture
Holistic planning (HP):
Eyes
Hands
Heart
Head
Age:
3-6
7-12

Theme  Topic  Sub Topic Age HP Details
Buildings Natural building materials Learn basic tool safety rules, e.g. when carrying a tool always walk (not run), hold it in a safe way, the names of the different parts of the tool (e.g. handle, blade).
Buildings Natural building materials Learn vocabulary for natural building materials, such as moss, straw, clay.
Buildings Shelter Experience sleeping in a shelter made by themselves from local natural materials and compare it with living indoors.
Buildings Shelter Use ropes and strings to tie knots to build something (such as a shelter).
Buildings Shelter Find out traditional ways peoples in different places showed gratitude for warmth and shelter; what kinds of blessings did they have? Create a blessing ceremony for a fairy home or a real home based on things that you learn about those traditions.
Buildings Shelter Learn that people in different parts of the world design their homes and buildings to best suit the materials they have and their climate.
Buildings Natural building materials Choose a simple building plan and then try building it (for example with wooden blocks).
Buildings Natural building materials Build something e.g. a shelter, chicken tractor, raised bed and create a scale drawing of it.
Buildings Natural building materials Make models using different geometry (e.g. reciprocal-frame roof, geodesic dome etc.)
Buildings Natural building materials Make a scale-drawing (and learn how to read them).

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