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  • 1.  Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 20 days ago

    It's Kids Garden Month and this year we're playing Bingo! Every year, KidsGardening holds a month-long contest for kids and we hold a contest here in the Kids Garden Community so educators, caregivers, and volunteers can get in on the fun!



    How to play:

    • Download the bingo card

    • Complete 3 activities in a row/column/diagonal

    • Multiple bingos allowed and encouraged

    • Deadline April 30, 2026



    Did you get all the bingos you can? 

    1. Shout "BINGO!" as a reply to this thread

    2. Tell us how many bingos you got (each bingo is an entry for the prize drawing)

    3. Tell us what you did for 3 of the activities to get one of your bingos (e.g. tell us your garden joke, who you found with the same interests, etc.)



    Prize details and kids' bingo info is provided here.



    Let me know if you have any questions! 



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    Amelia Dupuis
    Kids Garden Community Manager
    KidsGardening
    she/her
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  • 2.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 20 days ago

    BINGO! I got 2 bingos.

    Joke: How does a flower ride a bike? It petals.

    5 minutes outside hand-watering the school garden.

    At home, I'm planting delphinium in the garden for the first time and bluebonnets have bloomed for the first time in my flower bed! 💙

    Joke... see above. 😁

    I'm sharing Kids Garden Bingo with my gardening club in our newsletter this month. 

    I updated my profile!



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    Jennifer Ross
    Trinity Christian Academy
    TX
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  • 3.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 19 days ago

    BINGO

    I got 6 Bingo's.  The only one I did not do is to share a recipe

    Why was the cucumber mad?   It was in a Pickle.

    I am taking a class on gardening.

    I shared the Bingo card with a colleague and friend

    Nature;  I fed the chickens some grass/weeds that I pulled from the garden and then just watched them scratch/eat it.

    Found 3 community members in my state that shared an interest in special education students.

    Updated my profile

    Garden in spanish is Jardin

    Planted Parsley and tried a spaghetti squash.



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    Shawna Gragg
    Lincoln Middle School
    AR
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  • 4.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 8 days ago

    BINGO! 

    Made kids laugh with jokes: Why shouldn't you tell a secret on a farm? (Because the potatoes have eyes and the corn has ears!)

    Shared the Kids Bingo game

    Updated my profile too



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    Shelly Boelter
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  • 5.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 7 days ago

    My PreK class of 12 students got 6 BINGOS!!!!


    *We recently had a bunch of rain and loved drawing worms as they wiggled across the cement.

    *The sun FINALLY came out and we enjoyed feeling the sunshine on our face while we went bird watching.

    *Each student has their own nature journal and wrote in it quite a bit over the last two weeks-We had rain, snow, windy, and 80 degree weather!

    We will be sending home a bingo card home for homework this coming Friday!

    PreK students went outside with bird watching books, binoculars, and view finders to look for birds and worms.



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    Kassandra Mayo
    Omaha NE
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  • 6.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 6 days ago
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    Upload of our BINGO sheet!



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    Kassandra Mayo
    St. Bernard Catholic School
    Omaha NE
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  • 7.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 6 days ago

    BINGO.

    I updated my profile.

    Today we watched a video on container gardening. Which is better for sweet potatoes. Buckets will get you potatoes (long and thin), but it appears if you allow the vines to vine into the ground, you will get more. Once the green house is finished, we will prove or disprove this video.

    I spent 40 minutes outside enjoying the view of our new greenhouse. No student with me. Just me thinking about the possibilities and thinking about ways to bring the birds in to the playground area of the school.  We have no trees. But, the greenhouse is almost done and we are adding in wood garden boxes around the outside. Our plan is to dismantle the old wooden beds and utilize the dirt in the new garden boxes. we will then find a way to get the nice galvanized beds.  



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    katie zaborac
    SEAPCO Academy
    Bartonville IL
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  • 8.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 5 days ago

    BINGO!

    1. Made a kid laugh (or groan) with a garden joke/pun... the kids were having a "very active" 😉 day, so to speak... I told them "the corn has ears and the potatoes have eyes"... there were a few confused looks and a a few that actually understood the pun!
    2. Take 5 quiet minutes for yourself in nature... I spent (more than) 5 quiet minutes in the garden pulling weeds. 😌
    3. Plant something new, taste a new fruit/veg or cook with a new fruit/veg... we planted green onions 👩‍🌾 for the very first time in the garden! 


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    Natalie Bonham
    Mayes County HOPE
    Pryor OK
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  • 9.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 5 days ago
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    BINGO!

    How fun!

    I just tried a new(to me) cherry tomato. It's from Trader Joe's, they are called sprinkles. They are yummy.

    I told a joke at our preschool snack table and I made one kiddo laugh pretty hard. It's loosely garden inspired. "Why did the dog lay down in the shade?" "Because he didn't want to be a hot dog!"

    I updated my profile and I can't wait to play bingo with our older children.

    Thank you kids gardening!

    P.S. I am attaching a picture of a garden sign I made with inspiration from this group.



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    Nina Moench
    DIG Childhood Center
    LOS ANGELES CA
    4242899619
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  • 10.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted 3 days ago
    I messed up and played Bingo wrong!
    I didn't get three in a row, I just did three.������

    Best,
    Nina Moench she/her/hers
    Teacher/Director
    DIG Childhood Center
    424-289-9619

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  • 11.  RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

    Posted yesterday

    Bingo! I got all 8 bingos!

    What did the big flower say to the little flower?Hey bud.

    I shared a yummy zuppa Toscana recipe in the thread.

    I learned that you can easily plant Pinto beans straight from the grocery store.

    I shared garden bingo with my sister in law.

    I spent 5 minutes swinging in my hammock watching the humming birds.

    I found 3 friends in this community.

    Profile updated!

    I learned a snail in Spanish is caracol.caramel.

    I planted Pinto beans and they are already getting to big!



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    Sidney Ingersoll
    Joshua tree CA
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