on June 30th, 2011%
Today’s the Day!
If you’ve been growing sunflowers with us as part of the Compton Hospice Sunflower Challenge you need to measure your sunflowers today. There are fabulous prizes on offer for the tallest bloom, so measure up and contact Compton with your vital statistics.
Our tallest is currently 1m 65cm. They got up to 2m 47cm last year, so there’s plenty more growing to be done. How tall are yours?
Sunflower Festival
If you’ve been enjoying growing sunflowers (whether you’re joining in the official challenge or not) and have a sunflower-themed play idea to share with us – we would love to see them. Please add a link to the Linky at the end of this post. We’ve shared some ideas for art, science and math in our Sunflower Activities ebook, and here’s one more idea for sunflower fun.
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on June 11th, 2011%
Are you growing sunflowers with your children? We’re joining in with Have a Lovely Time to support the Sunflower Challenge in aid of Compton Hospice and would like to invite you to join our Sunflower Festival
Join the Sunflower Festival
Thursday June 30th is the Official Measuring Day for those of you taking part . . . → Read More: Join the Sunflower Festival
on May 10th, 2011%
Gardening with children offers so many opportunities to learn. We love growing our own fruit and vegetables, even though our garden is small, so the children get to see where their food comes from and how seeds transform into something tasty to eat.
The sunflowers we’re growing as part of the Sunflower Challenge charity competition are doing . . . → Read More: Make a garden journal
on May 1st, 2011%
Regular readers will know NurtureStore is teaming up with Have a Lovely Time to host a Sunflower Challenge, helping to raise funds for Compton Hospice. You can find out about the challenge here and download a free ebook full of sunflower activities including art, science and maths ideas. If you enjoy the ebook maybe you’d consider . . . → Read More: International guerrilla sunflower gardening day
on February 28th, 2011%
Last year we had so much fun running our Sunflower Club with you all that this year we thought we’d like to make it even bigger and better. We’ve joined forces with Have a Lovely Time to launch a Sunflower Challenge and I’m hoping you’re all going to join in and help us raise funds for . . . → Read More: Join the NurtureStore and Have a Lovely Time Sunflower Challenge
on August 19th, 2010%
Growing sunflowers with children? Download our free sunflower activities ebook.
Have you ever tried writing poetry with children? So far this summer the Sunflower Club has inspired us with measurement, science, art, numbers and biology and today we’re tried out some poems about sunflowers.
We had a go with two different prompts. The first was to . . . → Read More: Poems about sunflowers
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