July 27, 2007

Making Garden Pots

Today we got our expected Tuesday visit from the Mount Greenwood Park Special Recreation campers. This is always a fun time because the children are eager to get their hands dirty. We did a small craft using pots. They created creative designs on terracotta pots with paint and then we are going to hang the pots from the trees in their garden.

We all went outside where they played a game of "Name that Plant." The children were all given a label of a certain plant, and they were to go find that plant in the garden and place the label in the ground.

Tuesdays are my favorite days of the week because of the energy that the kids bring to the garden. They never fail to say or do something clever, cute, or down right hilarious. For example, one of the campers wanted me to imagine that there was a mud pit in between us and he grabbed my arm to play tug-o-war. Another one of the campers were overjoyed to see that the tomato plant that he had planted in the beginning of the summer is now producing tomatoes. The kids are never stingy with handshake and hugs.

Posted by Ron Wolford at 8:25 PM |