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Grow Your Own for kids

This RHS book is packed with quick and easy activities for children to do in the garden

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Once you've decided which workshop you would like to attend, download the lesson plans here. We have pre-visit and post-visit suggestions as well as the full lesson plan for your actual visit. Just click on the links below.

Key Stage 1 lessons
Making 'sense' of the world	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
How does your garden grow?	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Animal detectives	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Wacky woodland	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Fruit and vegetable stew	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Poet-tree!	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Sculpture	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Colour crazy	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Weaving and dyeing	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Rubbish or recycling?	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit

Key Stage 2 lessons
Plant survival	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Rocks, soils and little micro-organisms	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Predator and prey	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Wild woodland	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Sculpitats	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Weaving and dyeing	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Patterns and prints from the garden	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Escher	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Poet-tree!	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Orienteering and maps	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit
Sustainability	Pre visit ideas	Post visit ideas	Harlow Carr visit