Ideas
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Order a bunch for your wedding, baby shower, or birthday party.
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Use them in a classroom, school garden, or fundraiser.
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Go Hansel and drop them along your route to work then enjoy them everyday. You deserve it!
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Make a kitchen window garden with the Thyme Bombs.
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Share them with a senior center.
Group activity ideas for kids age 2-100
- Plant A Hope, Water A Dream: Give each participant a Seedle and a small pot with soil. Plant the Seedle and care for it until it outgrows the pot and can either be transferred into a garden or a bigger pot. You could do this as an individual activity or a group gathering. Sharing hopes and dreams out loud with each other builds community.
- Garden Day: Designate a Rainbow Garden Day and invite participants to plant the Seedles directly in the ground. Take volunteers for watering and/or meet regularly for Garden Day.
- Wildflower Bingo!: Get pictures from the internet and make Bingo sheets. The Maryland mix contains some or all of the these flowers: Common Yarrow, Black-eyed Susan, Showy Goldenrod, Common Milkweed, Red Columbine, Purple Echinacea, and Wild Bergamot.
- Grow the Rainbow Art Classes
- Use pastels or watercolors to draw wildflower and bee scapes.
- Paint the pots for the Seedles to go in.
- Take pictures of flowers and pollinators to make a group collage.
- Print images from the internet to make a collective Bee Garden vision board.
- Make garden chalk art.
- Decorate tiles in bee stripes and flower patterns.
- Write creative short stories.
- Use Sharpie makers on wax paper to make “Stained Paper Windows”
- Knit flower and bee themed items(beenies, scarves, blankies, booties) to donate and cheer up a soldier, a family, or an expecting mother.
- Make Rainbow themed crafts for sale: http://www.pinterest.com/HealthAsWeAge/senior-craft-projects/
- Make a bee box: http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/
- Build a pollinator habitat complete with bee condos, watering holes, and of course, wildflowers.
- Build a pollinator habitat complete with bee condos, watering holes, and of course, wildflowers
- Ask the garden savvy participants and/or everyone to share stories and gather ideas.
- Start an Adopt A Bee Together program, or an A Picture A Day blog.