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The preschool indoor garden mural lets you bring the garden inside. Outside gardens can be labor intensive and let's face it, it takes time to experience food growing! Preschoolers can learn about how food grows and see their garden 'grow' quickly with the indoor garden mural. Create the mural with poster board or a large roll of paper, markers or crayons, and pictures of plant foods. Display the indoor garden mural and add to it each time you have a food theme, talk about food, or eat a new food at snacktime.What You Need
Long roll of paper or large poster boardMarkers or crayons
Pictures of plant foods - fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, nuts
How to Make the Indoor Garden Mural
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tep One:Prepare the background for your indoor garden. Draw two lines across the length of the paper/poster, one to represent the top of the 'underground' part of your garden, the other to represent the horizon. Add a few trees, shrubs and fields.
Step Two:
Use light crayons or pencils to color in the various parts of the mural. Brown underground, green grass, blue sky, green shrubs, etc.
Step Three:
Add pictures of food in their proper place in the garden. For instance, carrots will be placed below the ground with the carrot top above the ground, apples will be placed in a tree, berries will be placed in a shrub, grains will be placed in the field.Using the Indoor Garden Mural
Create the entire garden all at once by having a variety of food pictures available. Hand out pictures to preschoolers one at a time to place in the garden.Or, watch your garden grow by exploring foods one at a time throughout the year. For each food lesson, place one or more pictures of the food in the garden. As the preschool year goes by, your garden will grow and grow!
Use the Indoor Garden Mural with any preschool food theme or with the Preschool Food Game - How Does it Grow? and the What's In Season Calendar for Preschoolers
by Kati Chevaux
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