{"id":6878,"date":"2021-04-09T08:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T00:17:36","slug":"creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/2024\/creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to get creative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6875 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BE04F26C-2F57-46B9-8E9C-B36884D58DA7-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Are you looking for a creative school holiday activity? Why not <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">make a flower or herb garden<\/span><\/strong> like our students in Mrs Fletcher&#8217;s classroom?<\/p>\n<p>The children in Room 19 were asked to design and make a flower and herb garden.\u00a0 First they had to collect and choose <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">recycled<\/span><\/strong> milk containers that suited the shape of the garden they wanted.\u00a0 Each child then chose two colours (one dark and one light) to paint their container. One colour was used to paint the background and the other colour was used to make patterns.<\/p>\n<p>When the painted containers were dry the children filled them with soil and selected their own flowers and herbs to plant into their garden.\u00a0 The choices available were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snap dragons (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Sweet peas (seeds)<\/li>\n<li>Fairy flowers &#8211; Alyssum, Cameo Mix, Lobelia Midnight Moon<\/li>\n<li>Dill<\/li>\n<li>Basil<\/li>\n<li>Coriander<\/li>\n<li>Nasturtium<\/li>\n<li>Viola<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6876 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/5259DDB8-CC02-4AFF-AE89-787293938869-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The children watered their gardens and put them out in the sun in the <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">junior primary vegie garden<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Mrs Joyce has installed them on the grill outside our school library and now we have a <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">vibrant vertical garden!\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>We are hoping the flowers and herbs attract bees and other insects to our garden, we need them to help pollinate our plants.<\/p>\n<p>The children have been writing about their creative gardening projects in their Garden Journals.\u00a0 Great job Room 19!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you looking for a creative school holiday activity? 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