Garden Critter Academy
Meet some Garden Super Heroes!
Bring the garden into your classroom! Join urban farmer Lisa Taylor in a music and movement filled exploration of four super heroes of the organic garden -- predators, pollinators, insects and decomposers. Through music, movement, storytelling and puppetry discover how spiders, bees, ladybugs, butterflies and worms help make our gardens healthy and how we can invite them to live in our yards. Learning about these amazing creatures gives us a better understanding of their important role in a healthy garden.
Garden Super Heroes
These programs introduce preschoolers through 4th graders all about the role of different arthropods and invertebrates in the garden. We will explore life cycles, pollination, habitats and anatomy through music, creative drama, puppetry and live worms!
Super Spiders Learn where spiders live and how they hunt, eat and grow. Bee Hive Jive It’s a pollinator dance party! Buzz with the bees as we move pollen around. Worms at Work Learn what worms eat and hold real live red wiggler worms! Incredible Insects Fly and crawl with butterflies, ladybugs and other the six-legged creatures of the garden. Munch, Buzz, Bloom The Big Three– spiders, worms and honeybees – amazing garden super heroes Slimy Creatures A silver trail leads to a wonderful world of slime with slugs, snails and worms. The Mysterious Seed Follow a tiny seed as it becomes a big plant that makes more seeds. add-on activity: Plant an actual seed to grow indoors, add $25.00 per sesson. Length: 35-45 minutes per lesson.
Age/Grade: Preschool-through 4th grade. Group size limit: 20 preschoolers or 25 elementary students Classroom requirements: Multipurpose or classroom with space to sit on the floor, space to move around and tables for worm exploration or other projects. Contact me for availability and pricing gardenwithlisa@gmail.com |
Baby Bug School
These short programs introduce toddlers and 2 year olds to garden critters. With our friendly Garden Critter Academy puppets we will sing songs, read stories, move around and have fun learning about some common garden creatures. Wiggly Worms Squirm and wiggle with red wiggler worms as they make rich garden soil. Silly Spiders Crawl with eight legs and spin your web while catching gnats and flies. Baby Bees I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee and we will buzz, buzz, buzz with her. Laughing Ladybugs Fly around and picnic on aphids, then play games before sleeping all winter. Magical Butterflies Crawl out of an egg then grow until we flutter and fly around the flowers. Length: 25-30 minutes per lesson. Age/Grade: toddlers – 2 years old. Group size limit: 15 toddlers Classroom requirements: Multipurpose or classroom with space to sit on the floor, space to move around and tables for worm exploration or other projects. Contact me for availability and pricing gardenwithlisa@gmail.com |