This program fosters healthy eating habits in young children as they plant, harvest, play, and learn in CBEC’s food garden.
- Garden visits and chores
- Games, stories, and songs
- Learning activities
Every session, there will be garden visits and chores, exploration, games, stories, songs, learning activities, and free play. Participants are ages 2 through 5 and accompanied by an adult.
$12/session/child for CBEC members
$15/session/child for non-members
The first Tuesday from March to November, 10:00 to 11:15 am:
- March 4: Plant It! Grow It! Eat It! An overview of the growing season ahead; planting the first crops of the year
- April 1: Worms are a Garden’s Friends. Creating healthy soil for a vibrant garden; compost and more planting
- May 6: It All Begins With A Seed. The life cycle of the plants that give us food; we’re still planting before it gets too hot
- June 3: Pollination Nation. Bees, butterflies, beautiful flowers; let’s plant some flowers for our pollinating friends
- July 1: Pick, Pull, Harvest. Time to enjoy those early season crops; let’s water, weed and look for pests to keep our garden happy when it’s hot outside
- August 5: We Eat With All Our Senses. See, smell, touch, hear and taste what the garden has to offer
- September 2: A New Garden Season Begins. Cleaning up the garden after the summer heat and planting late season veggies
- October 7: Pumpkins and Gourds and Squash, Oh My! The colors and shapes and flavors of fall
- November 4: It’s Finally Time to Rest. What happens in the garden when it gets cold? How do the trees help our garden?
Sample Little Sprouts activities and learning objectives:
- Math: counting, comparison, measuring, weighing, sequencing, charting, addition, shapes
- Language Arts: letters, vocabulary, simple words, storytelling, tracing writing, matching
- Art: color, art appreciation, painting, tracing, construction, collage, crafts, song, poetry
- Science: healthy eating, plant parts, weather, nutrition, food preparation.
