Have you ever wondered how to make your own chocolate or where it comes from? Have your tot find out in Seedlings this week. We will taste a variety of chocolates from various stages in the chocolate making process ending with their very own chocolate creation to take home. Kids love finding out that chocolate is horrible!
Raspberries are a tasty way of adding some color to your clothes!
Ever wonder how to dye your clothing in a natural way? Kids love getting stains on their clothes anyway, right? Next Tuesday in our Seedlings weekly classes for kids 3-5, we will be making tie-dyed socks with berries. We will define what fruits are actually considered berries and which ones aren’t. Botanically, a blueberry is considered a false berry and a strawberry is an aggregate berry. So what actually is considered a berry then? You will be surprised to know that tomatoes and grapes are the most commonly eaten berries! Okay, so this is a bit high level for your four year old but they will love getting to taste different berries and then learn that they can change the color of their clothing as well.
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This funny diary will be read before we make our compost bins with worms.
I am so excited and yes a little nervous about next Tuesday for our Seedlings class. I am bringing in a bunch of live worms for kids to look at and take home with them! We will be reading the adorable “Diary of a Worm” by Doreen Cronin. In this hysterical diary, kids get to see a portrait of a regular worm family and what worms do all day. After we read the book, we will observe live worms from a worm compost bin. The class will then go to work creating their own individual worm bins to take home.
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Kids will get to find various colors of pumpkins and their relatives.
Don’t miss this class next Tuesday at Denver Botanic Gardens. If you have a 3-, 4- or 5-year old, sign them up for an adventure out in the Gardens. The adventure starts out learning about the pumpkin life cycle and the pumpkin plant family.
Then we will go outdoors to hunt for all different colors and sizes of pumpkins
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This is a time where kids from ages 3-5 can get together, have fun and explore the wonders of nature. Their parents also have fun with one another and find camaraderie in the fact that their children are learning not only to appreciate nature, but also how to interact with nature and preserve its beauty.
I have been teaching this class for over a year and still am amazed that, despite different ages or developmental phases, children always have something in common: they are fascinated by what we find during our explorations of nature!
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