Toolbox — For Training and Youth Work
All new tools in your inbox: Be the first to know about new tools for learning with our e-mail notifications.
Simulation Exercise, Exercise
An open-air activity for kids, learning to plant. The tool created and recommended by a group of psychologists and social workers working with children with fewer opoortunities, from Bulgaria.
Promote volunteer work, develop understanding about different plants and planting procedures, reaching harmony in the environment
1. Prepare seeds and bulbs of various flowers and choose a proper (allowed) place outside in advance (e.g. a a public park or a garden). Bring the kids there.
2. Ask participants to choose any seed or bulb, watch it and imagine which flower would it become. Ask them to draw the imagined flower on a well paper. Ask them to create a story, a poem or a song about this flower.
3. Plant together the seeds and bulbs and put the designed well paper flowers next to each planted flower, signed. Explain the basic safety regulations - not to leave around unattended, reverse and not to throw, hold high up or close to the face sharp gardening equipment - hoes, rakes, shovels; let the participants explore the available gardening equipment, touch the ground, feel the soil; then show Your own example how to make a flower bed, how to dig small halls for the bulbs or the rows for the seeds; be ready to assist and hold some equipment together with the participants; cover the soil and show how to water; let the participants water the plants with the water can.
4. Discuss with the participants what is needed for planting, what is the process, why planting is important.
5. If possible, watch the process of the flowers growing in the upcoming weeks or come back to the place after some time to see the progress and reflect.
SALTO cannot be held responsible for the inappropriate use of these training tools. Always adapt training tools to your aims, context, target group and to your own skills! These tools have been used in a variety of formats and situations. Please notify SALTO should you know about the origin of or copyright on this tool.
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3687
This tool is for
Small kids
and addresses
Voluntary Service, Environment
Materials needed:
Seeds and bulbs of various flowers (e.g. crocus, narcissus, tulip, lily, aster, zinnia, Turkish cloves, marigold, rudbeckia, daisy, pansies - it is recommended to use of organic seeds and not genetically modified ones - You can pick and prepare them in local gardens in the previous seasons, ask local gardeners for help).
Gardening tools: hoes, rakes, shovels, watering can with water.
Well paper and colorful markers.
You have to find a proper outside space for planting in advance.
Duration:
ca 1-1,5 h
The tool was created by
"EmoTrain" participants
in the context of
TC "EmoTrain", Bulgaria 2023
The tool has been experimented in
EmoTrain follow-up activities in Latvia and Bulgaria
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Kristina Castronovo (on 22 January 2024)
and last modified
31 May 2023
Comments
No comments have been posted yet.
If you want to comment on this tool, you need to be signed in with your MySALTO account. Sign in now