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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Collect seeds from different plants. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Harvest food from the garden. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Use tools safely that are age appropriate e.g. trowels. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Sprout seeds and eat them. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Play games with sorting, grouping or matching seeds, fruits, nuts or vegetables by sizes, colours and shapes. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Create a planting ceremony - e.g. with songs/ poems / dance and asking the earth to feed the plant, the sun to shine on it, rain to water it, other plants to protect it from bugs. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Sing songs and give thanks to the earth or "mother nature" for the food it provides. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Celebrate harvests with festivals or special meals. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Use drama to show a plant growing from a small seed to a mature plant that produces new seeds. |
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Growing food |
Helping to grow food |
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Find out where food comes from e.g. milk from cows, apples from a tree. |