Gardening 101

This week we have focused our time on Gardening! Each day we read a different book and either did a craft or made a special snack that goes along with gardening! At first I wasn't sure about this theme, but the more research I did I kept finding cute things to do! I also got lots of my ideas from the Virtual Book Club for Kids that we are participating in online.
 
Below is what we have done throughout the week!

To begin, I created a sensory tub for the boys to play with all week. I got two $1 bags of shredded brown paper to use as dirt, a set of fake flowers and kid gardening supplies.

 

 

 



Day 1:
Introduce the Gardening theme by doing nothing other then...GARDENING! We went down to my brothers and planted vegetables in the garden. Of course we put these boys to work!! We talked about garden tools (tractors, shovels, cages, etc.), what plants we planted, of course we just played in the dirt!

 

 

 

Day 2:

We read the books A is for Salad by Mike Lester & Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. Since it's so beautiful outside today I didn't want to do very much inside. We made a Rainbow Salad out of fruit and took it outside to eat! Red=Strawberries, Orange=mandarin oranges, Yellow=Banana, Green=grapes, Blue=blueberries, Violet=grapes

 

 

 

Day 3:

We read the book How Groundhog's Garden Grew by Lynne Cherry.  I had the boys draw pictures of a garden. I also created a color page that listed vegetables/fruits and their color!

 

 

 Day 4:

We read the book Biscuit in the Garden by Alyssa Capucilli

Then we played with our sensory tub!

 

 



 

Day 5:

We read the book Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert

As a special treat we had pudding (as dirt) and gummy worms.

 



 

 

Other Great Gardening Books:

Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert, The Curious Garden by Peter Brown