Growing Together: Open Forum

Can you please give any ideas for a 1-2x summer school activity? 3rd/4th grade, around 6 kids. I will have one adult helper. We have two raised beds and we will work on those for a bit, and an outdoor classroom area/open space. I was thinking of making bug houses or recycled bird feeders but any other ideas are appreciated to fill in around an extra hour. Thanks in advance!

Those are both good ideas.

You could make little weather vanes. We make bee boxes out of the small milk cartons kids get at school. Cut off the top and fill with paper straws and twigs. Precut the straws to the height of the carton. I give each kid a glob of homemade playdo to stick in the bottom of the carton. It holds the straws in place.You could have the kids create their own pollinator guide. I have posters on each pollinator that I have created with some basic facts. The kids can use the posters to help them. They choose two or three pollinators, draw a picture and write two facts. Look for shapes and patterns in the garden. Do flower pounding -Take 100% white cotton. Put some petals on masking tape. Tape the flowers on the cotton. Pound on the tape with a rubber mallet. They can glue and twig to the top of the material to make a hanging piece of art. Make sure to twig is a few inches longer than the material so they can tie a piece of twine on each end.

Can you please give any ideas for a 1-2x summer school activity? 3rd/4th grade, around 6 kids. I will have one adult helper. We have two raised beds and we will work on those for a bit, and an outdoor classroom area/open space. I was thinking of making bug houses or recycled bird feeders but any other ideas are appreciated to fill in around an extra hour. Thanks in advance!

Those are both good ideas.

You could make little weather vanes. We make bee boxes out of the small milk cartons kids get at school. Cut off the top and fill with paper straws and twigs. Precut the straws to the height of the carton. I give each kid a glob of homemade playdo to stick in the bottom of the carton. It holds the straws in place.You could have the kids create their own pollinator guide. I have posters on each pollinator that I have created with some basic facts. The kids can use the posters to help them. They choose two or three pollinators, draw a picture and write two facts. Look for shapes and patterns in the garden. Do flower pounding -Take 100% white cotton. Put some petals on masking tape. Tape the flowers on the cotton. Pound on the tape with a rubber mallet. They can glue and twig to the top of the material to make a hanging piece of art. Make sure to twig is a few inches longer than the material so they can tie a piece of twine on each end.

Can you please give any ideas for a 1-2x summer school activity? 3rd/4th grade, around 6 kids. I will have one adult helper. We have two raised beds and we will work on those for a bit, and an outdoor classroom area/open space. I was thinking of making bug houses or recycled bird feeders but any other ideas are appreciated to fill in around an extra hour. Thanks in advance!