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Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org

Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org

 One of that last garden lessons of the school year I do for the fifth graders is a "Garden Amazing Race" where each team has tasks at different stations to complete around the school garden. An example of one task is to create a bird nest from materials found on the ground of the garden. Another station is to plot out a summer veggie garden using a planting companion chart. For the fourth graders, I created a "$100.000 Pyramid". The categories are things we learned during the year, like "Things that are pollinators" or "Parts of a Plant".

Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org

Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org

Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org

Little late in the month for a comment here, but our 1st grade Boys Girls Club gardening class really enjoyed playing smash or save to kick off our study of pollinators.   I showed them microscope enlarged pics of Georgia pollinators (or insects), had them choose smash or save, and then followed with pictures of what they really were and their place in the environment.   We had a meaningful discussion about pollinators, their benefits to gardening, general garden kindness and garden etiquette.  When then took a tour of our farm garden the last half of the class and the tour was much more meaningful and mindful putting this knowledge to action.   

Hi Everyone, 

In honor of the Olympic Games next month, KidsGardening is theming our content around "Garden Games" in July! We'd like to publish a round-up of easy games to play with kids in garden spaces to either break the ice or facilitate movement or team building. We'd love to feature some of your great ideas in this piece and would credit your idea to you within the article. Games can be competitive or non-competitive but would ideally not require many materials or extensive instructions. Please let us know if there are any great games you play with groups of kids that we can share with your fellow educators during this fun content month!

Warm Regards,

Noel Nicholas

Educational Content Manager

KidsGardening.org