Romaine's
Garden
- Children's Projects
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- As many children would rather be outside than
anywhere else, digging, making, building and raking, then
gardening is an ideal and healthy activity. They learn so much by
doing as well as by looking and reading.
- Each
month this section will describe a gardening activity for
children.
- Hopefully each project will provide fun, interest
and educational value.
- The
most recent project will be listed first.
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Fairy Garden
Fairies are always elusive and have bewitched the
imaginations of humans for centuries. Very few people have glimpsed
more than a shadow of them or heard more than an echo. With a little
time and imagination, you can easily make your own Fairy
Garden.
You will
need:- Part of
the back garden. A toy or small spade, pebbles, sand, foil, twigs,
Christmas tinsel, bells, ribbons,buttons, flowers and herbs, rocks,
ferns and moss and if you wish, little Fairy figures and Gold paint
spray available from bargain shops.
- 1.
Shape you soil
to make hills, valleys and ponds.
- 2.
Decorate with
all of the things you have collected.
- 3.
Try adding
stick tunnels, bridges and pathways.
- 4.
Make a Fairy
Swing from string and sticks.
- 5.
Add small
plants and floating flowers to your pond.
- 6.
Ask an adult
to spray some gold paint on your pebbles.
- 7.
You may want
to hand paint some of the other pebbles and sticks.
- 8.
Make some
steps along some of your pathways.
- 9.
Design a
little sign that says "My Fairy Garden"
- 10.Enjoy watching your Fairies play.
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Friendly Scarecrow
You will
need:- Some old
clothes, five old socks, a hat, some straw, one and a half tomato
stakes, a texta, two buttons, some string and a hammer.
- 1. Fill the socks with straw.
One for the head, two for the arms and two for the
legs.
- 2. Tie two socks together and
put through the arms of the shirt.
- 3. Put more straw in the
shirt tummy.
- 4. Put the legs in the
trousers.
- 5. Fill the trousers with
more straw and tie to the shirt.
- 6. Draw a friendly face and
sew or glue on the button eyes.
- 7. Push a tomato stake right
through your Scarecrow.
- 8. Push the half stake
through the arms.
- 9. Hammer him into the
garden.
- 10.Tie on his head and put on his hat. You now have a
Friendly Scarecrow!
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Little Wormfarm
You will
need:- A glass
jar, sand, garden soil, worms, rotted leaves or compost, black paper,
stickytape and scissors.
- 1. Place 5cm of sand in the
jar.
- 2. Place 5cm of soil in the
jar.
- 3. Keep making layers of sand
and soil until you are near the top.
- 4. Add 2 or 3 worms to the
top layer of soil and give them names.
- 5. Sprinkle with a spoonful
of water.
- 6. Cover the top with leaves
or compost.
- 7. Cut black paper to fit
around the jar and decorate with paint or stickers.
- 8. Put sticky tape on the
paper so it can wrap around the jar.
- 9. After a few days slide off
the paper and see what the worms are doing.
-
10. Why do you think gardeners love finding worms in
their garden?
Vermicasting is another word for worm "poo".
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