Celebrating the Harvest
Objectives:
It is important that everyone involved stays motivated throughout the
whole garden project.
To make sure this happens, put together a programme of celebration events
(before, during and after the project) so that everybody feels satisfaction
and pride for what they have achieved.
Activities:
- Launch an opening ceremony for the project. See
the suggestions for publicising your project both in and out of school
for ways to create a buzz around the project.
- Vegetable Days. When each vegetable harvests, create
a celebration that aims to reinforce its nutritional value, how it
was planted, tended, protected and harvested. Create songs, dances
and dramatisations that can help facilitate this process.
- Competitions. Some of the ways to engage healthy interest is through
competition prizes based on the first edible vegetable, the biggest
yield, the healthiest looking green leaves, most pest-free plants,
best kept plot, etc.
- You could also create a booby prize for the biggest
weeds!
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