Kids in the Garden

Quick Links
Books
Winter in the Garden
Sound in the Garden

Kidsinthegarden - Blog

There is now a blog linked to Kidsinthegarden. So you can now keep in touch more easily. Please visit it and comment about your experiences on being outdoors with or without children

http://Out2playinthegarden.blogspot.com

Top Tips For Winter Fun in the Garden

Have a ball in the snow and be prepared to build more than a snowman and have snowball fights next time the snowy and icy weather appears. Kidsinthegarden’s new top tips has some great ideas for you.

If you are not too sure which seed packets to buy have a look at the suggestions for easy grow flower seeds.

Top tips for Winter Fun in the Garden.

Free Potatoes for Schools

Let your local primary school know that they can register now to receive free potatoes from the Potato Council.

This is part of a project that helps teach primary aged children about potatoes. Linked to the national curriculum children can learn how potatoes grow and how they fit in to a healthy balanced diet.

www.potatoesforschools.org.uk

Sound in the Garden

Hearing is not necessarily a sense we associate with outdoors and the garden, so take a look at the ideas on the website on all the sound -related activities you can do with your kidsinthegarden. There also ideas for planting some good garden rustlers.

Sound in the Garden

Birds

The Big Garden Birdwatch

The weekend of 30/31 January 2010 is an opportunity for you to get your children interested in bird watching. Have a go at the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. If you have a small garden you don’t need binoculars and if you don’t have a garden you can take part in a park.

Download the recording sheet (there pictures of all the species of birds you are likely to encounter) and simply record the highest number of each species you saw at any one time during your bird watch.

http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/

Bird Boxes

14 – 21 February is National Nest Box Week. Arranged by the British Trust for Ornithology there are details on how to build a bird box and listings of local events.

http://www.bto.org/nnbw/index.htm

You have received this newsletter because you have asked to do so. If you no longer wish to have a copy please reply to this e mail with the title ‘Unsubscribe’ .