edible playgrounds is all about teaching kids to grow & cook...
Enter our Cress Head Film Competition, and win a wonderful flip camera!
As our cress heads were so popular in our Gold Medal-winning Edible Playgrounds at last year’s RHS Flower Shows, we’ve turned them into little animated films with help from our neighbours at Thomas Hardye School and Cerne Abbas Primary School. The lovely teachers at the Design and Technology department of Thomas Hardye along with the Science Outreach Project have created an easy-to-follow guide to making your very own cress head film. To see some of their wonderful animated films, click here
Click here to have a go yourself and enter our film competition to win your very own Flip camera!
What to do in your
Edible Playground
during summer term
Click here to find out more about how to start your own garden. To see what you need to be doing in your Edible Playground now, click here. If you're feeling inspired, enter our other competition to win a magazine subscription for your school.
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News from other
edible playgrounds
St Mary's School, Bridport
Home of last year’s Dorset Cereals Edible Playground courtyard garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. St Mary’s in Bridport has a gardening club, run by Mrs Pritchard, which has about 20 members including several parents who meet once a week at lunchtimes and also after school... read more
We have some great projects and activities for you to get stuck into this summer, all focussing on the theme of bees, from wordsearches, science projects to music and dance projects, we think this will keep you busy for hours! Download our activity sheets here
Help the honey bee...
The honey bee is really important for the environment, and we are sure you have heard that the honey bee population is under threat. Our friends at Rowse Honey are doing their best to help the bees, click here to find out what they are up to and what you can do to keep your Edible Playgrounds buzzing!
Fancy making something yummy with honey? click here
