A World of Discovery Awaits: Enroll in Little Sprouts Preschool Today

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.

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.

Little Sprouts 2026 Calendar

Classes take place 10 to 11:15 am on the first Tuesday of the month from March to November. (Exception: the first Tuesday of April is during Queen Anne’s County Schools’ spring break, so class takes place the previous week.)

  • March 3: It All Starts With A Seed
  • March 31: Worms and Friends That Live Among the Roots
  • May 5: A Stem to Grow On
  • June 2: Pollination Nation: Bees and Flowers Everywhere
  • July 7: The Farmer Picks a Fruit
  • August 4: Eat a Rainbow
  • September 1: Secrets of the Garden
  • October 6: Pumpkins, Gourds, and Squash, Oh My!
  • November 3: Trees: Home for the Winter

$12/session/child for CBEC members

$15/session/child for non-members