Growing Together: Open Forum

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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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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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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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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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!

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Kassandra Mayo
Omaha NE
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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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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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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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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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Original Message:
Sent: 4/16/2026 1:29:00 PM
From: Nina Moench
Subject: RE: Kids Garden Month Bingo!

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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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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Bingo! I was able to do the first column, making students laugh, I shared the Kids Garden Bingo with our garden club, and updated my profile!

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Erika Musgrove
Baton Rouge LA
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I got 3 BINGOs.  

I found 3 people in my state that serve similar age groups- Duxbury Bay Farm and CitySprouts Boston.  I had 5 minutes to myself in the Library Nature Space getting it ready for our patrons and I shared Kids Garden Month with my colleagues during Citizen Science Month of April.  

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Amanda Meyer
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"BINGO!"

This was so fun! I used this idea for my own BINGO card for our summer learning theme... PLANT A SEED, Read! From iREAD

I barely squeaked in, but I was determined to get all 6 BINGOS! 

What did the sweet potato say to the pumpkin? I yam what I yam! 

I shared the Kids Bingo card with my 3rd-5th-grade book club.

 I am taking a class on vermiculture

I updated my profile and even added a picture!~

I did a nature hike in a conservation aread

I found 3 community members in my state

I planted tomato plants and basil

Plant a seed, read in Spanish is: Planta Una Semilla, Lee

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Karen Martin
NC
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Bingo! 

I have 3 bingos. 

Today, I watched my students plant the new orchard that was donated to our school and learned how to care for it. I spent time outside today taking pictures of it to share with friends and family and spent time outside repotting some plants.  

I updated my profile and searched for others in Wisconsin in the community that I can connect with.  

I shared the kids garden bingo with my garden club students and 4 of them played to get a bingo, which I submitted for them today. 

I also learned some new words about gardening with my bilingual students, this past month as we read about where our food comes from in reading time. We speak Spanish and English in our classroom and my students come from various Spanish speaking countries so we get to share the different words we each use to talk about food and gardening. 

Thank you for this fun opportunity to celebrate gardening! Excited to keep up the fun as garden club gets underway for us! 

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Katie Kohtala
3rd Grade Bilingual Teacher
School Garden Coordinator
Danz Elementary School
Green Bay, WI
klkohtala@gbaps.org
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BINGO! 
3 bingos

What did the cabbage pastor say to his congregation?  Lettuce Pray.
Took 5 mins alone in nature.
Planted dill for the first time.
Learned that apples taste bitter unless they are grafted.
Shared with my homeschool group
Updated Profile

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Breanna Blanton
Largo FL
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BINGO!  

I had 3 BINGOS.

I made a kid laugh with my garden joke:  When do you go on red and stop on green?  When you are eating a watermelon.

I went for a nature walk.

I cooked with new veggie:  leeks

I learned something new about gardening:  I learned how we can use plantain (weeds) to draw out splinters or use as an anti-inflammatory compound to heal some wounds.

I checked my profile to make sure it was up to date.

Learn a new garden word in a new language:  Swedish word for garden

trädgård

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Janice Ford
None
Canton MI
(She/Her)
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I know I'm a bit late on wrapping up Kids Garden Month but THANK YOU to everyone who participated and spent time celebrating gardening with kids. The prize winners were Erika, Jennifer, Amanda, Karen, and Sidney. Everyone else gets a $5 off coupon to the KidsGardening store so please check your messages for that! You all are the best :)

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Amelia Dupuis
Kids Garden Community Manager
KidsGardening
she/her
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