Luckily for Garden Group, flowers and Mother's Day go hand in hand. For our Mother's Day craft, Shira Graf showed the kids how to make pretty flowers by fan folding tissue paper and 'puffing them up' after fastening the middle with a green pipe cleaner. The flowers ranged from big open poppies to multilayered compact tulip like creations.
Using papers embedded with wildflower seeds from a local Boulder company called bloomin (bloomingpromotions.com), the kids made Mother's Day cards. The older kids didn't have time to make their cards, so be sure to prod them about 'the garden card' so you can plant a little wildflower pot this Mother's Day. Thank you to Shira for organizing the supplies for this craft and for Cyndi Aubrey for bringing juice boxes, popcorn and extra supplies!
Important directions I forgot to include with the card:
1. Dig a small hole in your garden or pot.
2. Place the flower in the hole, cover with soil.
3. Water occasionally and enjoy the flowers!
Michele, Theresa and Milen showed the kids how to plant potatoes. They planted purple potatoes in pots which we will keep adding dirt to and monitoring over the summer. It'll be fun to see the purple slices in a garden salad in the fall.
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| Top photo: Seeding potatoes ready to go. Bottom photo: Kids add dirt to containers. Photos: Theresa Diaz |
Thanks to the help of parent volunteers Bjorn, Jasmine, Theresa, Bill Brown and Art teacher David River's help, last week we were able to get rid of most of the weeds that were growing in the Hoop house and to build borders for our planting beds. The structure of the hoop house is now complete and just awaits painting. Since the weather is warming up, the full utility of the hoop house won't be apparent until we use it in the fall. Not that it isn't useful now as a cute house for the kids to play in!
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