Tag: Gardening
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How to make a Bag Garden
Some diagrams and a nifty animation.
Bag Gardens are a great way for classes or individual groups of children to get their hands on their first vegetable crop - African style! While they’re making one, they will learn all about the lives of children in African countries, healthy eating and how to help the environment. Preview some videos about Bag Gardens from our DVD using the YouTube link and find out more using the other links below. Call us to order a Bag Garden Starter Kit and then make your own sign.
www.youtube.com/cowforce
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of How to make a Bag Garden
Categories: Bag gardens, Bag gardens, Gardening advice and Science
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Fruit and vegetables shapes
Food shapes with healthy eating facts
These shapes with food facts are useful when talking about fresh food and healthy eating. They can also be used alongside the Harvest and African Gardens materials.
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Categories: Green poster, Other useful stuff and Science
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Beansprout feast
Growing beansprouts in your classroom
A speedy way to introduce plants and growing things to your class - get them growing healthy bean sprouts! These lessons take you right through the process from measuring to germination to eating! The activities include the scientific recording of results and are a good link to Bag Gardens, healthy eating and harvest topics.
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Categories: Green poster, Other useful stuff and Science
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How to make a Tip Tap handwashing device
Easy to make African tap for a school garden
A fun, practical challenge for pupils. They can get into groups and make their own version of this simple water conserving/hygiene device used in Africa. A great addition to your school garden and they work well next to Bag or Keyhole gardens. Links can easily be made to the DT curriculum (eg Moving toys). You can also enter the ‘Best Tip-Tap’ category in our African Gardens Competition by using the entry form contained in our kits.
- Tip-Taps_intro.ppt
- How_to_make_a_tip_tap.pdf
- How_to_make_a_Tip-Tap.ppt
- Tip-Tap_ideas_pictures.pdf
- Tip-Tap_sign.pdf
- African_Gardens_Rules.pdf
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Betty and George’s story
A short bag garden story
Growing things in bag gardens and composting are the main themes of this story. Betty and George are parents to seven children and their story shows how helpful a simple technique taught by Send a Cow can be.
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Categories: Children's stories
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Green poster - Food and harvest
Packed with food related resources
This poster is useful all year, but fits especially well into a harvest topic. There is information about growing food in Rwanda, some fun classroom ideas, plus Janvier’s and Rose’s stories of orphan headed households who now have healthy food because of Send a Cow’s help. The lessons and resources that support the material found on this poster can be found in this section. To receive copies of this resource please use the ‘Order and Sign up’ page and to view our other materials, use the link to the main Send a Cow website.
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Categories: Green poster
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Keyhole garden animation
A fun introduction to special African style gardens
This fun, colourful animation from our kids site, Cowforce.com, explains why special gardens are needed in some places in Africa (like Lesotho) and how they can help a poor family. Really useful for an assembly and as an introduction to our African Gardens work in the UK. Turn your sound up to enhance the experience. We have supplied an exe file for PC that should open straight up (over 2MB) or a Quicktime file that is smaller for PC. Have fun.
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Categories: Animations and Keyhole gardens
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African Gardens leaflet
All about Bag Gardens, the competition and ordering a kit
These leaflets explain all about the African Gardens competition and how you can purchase a Bag Garden Starter Kit for £10. The competition entries have to be by July 9th each year, but there’s nothing to stop people ordering kits and growing their own Bag Garden all year round. You can view the leaflet as a pdf and order some for for your school or event on the Order and sign up page.
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Categories: Bag gardens and Leaflets
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Bag Garden Powerpoints
Explaining the what, how and why of Bag Gardens
These Powerpoints show what Bag Gardens are all about, how they are useful for African families and why they are a great idea for children in the UK to make. Pictures are included of children in the UK and Africa making gardens. They are a good way of introducing Bag Gardens to your pupils.
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Categories: Bag gardens and Bag gardens
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Bag Gardens in action - stories
Three case studies of how Bag Gardens help families
These simple stories show how using Bag Gardens can really help families grow more food. They can be easily understood by children and printed out to use as part of an African Gardens display. The ‘Gardens background’ file helps set the scene to our work. Elias and Julia can also be seen on the Cabbages and Cowpats DVD using their Keyhole Garden.
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Categories: Bag gardens, Children's stories and Bag gardens
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Bag Gardens on Cowforce
Animations and child-friendly information about Bag Gardens
A great way to introduce your kids to African Bag Gardens. On this area of our Cowforce website, we meet Mr Tomato Head, a gameshow host who loves plants! He takes the user through what Bag Gardens are all about in a comic strip, how you can make one in an animation and all about the competition through a clip from the Tomato Head show.
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of Bag Gardens on Cowforce
Categories: Bag gardens, Animations and Bag gardens
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African style organic gardening tips
Quick tips and ingredients for organic crops
If you don’t want to use pesticides and other nasties, but you do want to make the most of nature. . .try these tips! Simple pieces of advice from companion planting to making plant tea, these pointers should help your pupils get even more excited about the world of growing plants. They are especially good for use in your Bag or Keyhole garden as they mirror the techniques used by African families.
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Categories: Gardening advice
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Make your garden a work of outdoor art
Some art ideas for your Bag or Keyhole Gardens
Brighten up your garden even more by using these fun ideas or turn your own recycled materials into something amazing. Your pupils can learn more about African art and recycling through activities like these. Signs are included to colour in.
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Categories: African garden ideas and Art
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Four African tales - animations
Fun animations that help to explain our work
These delightful, short animations, called ‘Four African Tales’ give an easy to follow explanation of some of Send a Cow’s work in Africa. They are ideal for use in an assembly and on an interactive whiteboard and they’re created to educate and bring a smile to children’s faces as they find out how we go about helping poor families get out of poverty.
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Categories: Animations and Visual aids
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Book a free speaker
Find out more about Africa and Send a Cow - book now!
If you would like to find out more about our work and help pupils learn about life in African countries, why not book a speaker to come and give a talk? We have ‘Ambassadors’ around the country who speak about Send a Cow - many of them have first-hand experience of our projects. They often use Powerpoint slides, DVDs and visual props, and are a great way of bringing our work to life in an assembly, workshop or lesson. So, to add to pupils’ learning or help with fundraising, call our bookings secretary, Jodie Sampson on (01531) 821751, or email Alternatively, download and print out the speaker booking form below.
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Images, photos, pictures!
Galleries of free photos from Africa
Visit our gallery where you can view and download hundreds of images taken in African countries. The pictures can be used for all sorts of activities, including comparing lives, making leaflets, finding out about animals, making African gardens and lots more. Have a look at the tips pdf to make the most of the images and if you would like access to even more pictures, log in to the main Send a Cow images site.
www.cowfiles.com/gallery
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Bag Gardens in the UK - video clip
See what this school did with their gardens
Staff and pupils got a lot out of making their Bag Gardens, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
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Categories: Bag gardens and Bag gardens
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Bag Gardens in Uganda - video clip
Hope from Uganda shows how to make a Bag Garden
Hope and her friends make a Bag Garden, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD. Order a copy here.
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Keyhole Gardens in Lesotho - video clip
Find out how Keyhole Gardens are used at home & school
School children in Lesotho show how to make a Keyhole Garden, click on the play button to find out more. This video is hosted on YouTube, if you have restricted access to this site (as is the case in some Primary schools) you will not be able to view this video online.
The high-quality version of this video can be found on our Cabbages & Cowpats DVD.
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Categories: DVDs and Keyhole gardens
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Sponsor a sunflower!
Sponsor a sunflower for Send a Cow - tallest wins!
Add a splash of colour to your home or school garden this Summer by ordering our Sponsor a Sunflower Kit. Growing sunflowers is a great activity for children to do over the Summer Holidays as they grow so quickly (taking between 75 and 90 days), with the Russian Mammoth sunflowers growing up to 12ft tall! As the sunflowers climb higher, your children will be helping African families and learning about why they grow their sunflowers too. You can use the sponsor form provided if you want to use your own sunflower seeds and the images from our sunflower gallery to make a classroom display. Find out more, including how to order a kit by visiting our sunflower kit page, or call us on (01225) 874 222.
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Categories: African garden ideas and Fun ideas
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Grow a Ugandan garden
Have a look at our seed trial blog!
This year, a small number of people will be trial growing some plants that you might find in a Ugandan garden. Although we cannot allocate any more seeds, you can collect some hints and tips and find out which plants are being grown and how everyone is getting on by visiting our ‘Ugandan garden blog’.
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Categories: African garden ideas
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Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
A fun DVD about Africa and Send a Cow
Our brand new ‘Cabbages and Cowpats’ DVD has been produced for primary schools and group use. It features short films about children’s lives in Lesotho, African gardens and Send a Cow’s work in Africa. The DVD is strong on promoting sustainability and healthy eating, it’s accompanied by toe-tapping music, engaging animations and an easy-to-follow storyline - much of it has a Welsh language option. Your kids will watch it until the cows come home! Watch some clips using the links. To buy a copy for just £6 (including p&p) call us on (01225) 874 222. Or use the order form.
www.cowforce.com/cabbages-and-cowpats
www.youtube.com/cowforceRate and read reviews of Cabbages and Cowpats DVD (+Welsh)
Categories: Visual aids, DVDs, Keyhole gardens, Geography and Other useful stuff
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How to make a Keyhole Garden
Advice for two designs of the African garden
Keyhole Gardens are a great addition to any school grounds and a really useful technique used across Send a Cow projects. There are two types of designs featured here: the rocky Lesothan version and the lower East African style version. See how we made one in the UK in the Powerpoint file and then make your own and enter our competition for free! Preview videos featuring keyhole gardens from our Cabbages and Cowpats DVD using the link below.
- How_to_make_a_Keyhole_Garden_East_African_style.pdf
- How_to_make_a_Keyhole_Garden_Lesotho_style.pdf
- This_is_our_Keyhole_Garden.pdf
- Keyhole_Garden_UK.ppt
- Gardens_background.pdf
- African_Gardens_Rules.pdf
- Keyhole_Gardens_Entry_Form.pdf
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Categories: Keyhole gardens
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Bag Gardens
Small gardens, ideal for small hands
Bag Gardens are a type of African garden that Send a Cow teaches families how to make in Africa. They are also a great way to get your pupils involved in a growing project, and learning about healthy eating and life in an African country. These mini-gardens make the most of good soil and compost, waste water, are easy to weed and can be grown in schools - bringing a global dimension to Science. There’s also a competition that year 9 and under can enter! Use the links below for a fun explanation and resources - where you can also order a superb Bag Garden Starter Kit.
www.cowforce.com/african-gardens
www.sendacow.org.uk/africangardensRate and read reviews of Bag Gardens
Categories: Bag gardens, Bag gardens, Green poster and Science
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