Today I facilitated a Vegetable Garden Activity at Filoli! I created short prompts and invited families and kids to walk around and write down words that inspired them. I then helped the kids turn their words into a poem. Here’s the template and sample poems created by the participants:
VEGETABLE GARDEN FIELD NOTES
Activity: Describe Filoli’s vegetable garden through the 5 senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
Name:
Date:
Name a vegetable you see in the garden: ___
What color is it: ___
Name one thing you hear as you walk around the garden: ___
Name one thing you taste as you walk around the garden: ___
Name one thing you smell as you walk around the garden: ___
Name one thing you can touch as you walk around the garden: ___
What is one positive emotion you feel right now: ___
Write your poem!
Title (color of vegetable + emotion): ___
It looks like ___
It sounds like ___
It tastes like ___
It smells like ___
It feels like ___
RED HAPPINESS BY NICO
It looks like a tomato.
It sounds like whistle of the leaves.
It tastes like yumminess.
It smells like sweet flowers.
It feels like soft leaves.
PURPLE STRIPE BEAUTY BY PIRA
It looks like an eggplant.
It sounds like birds.
It tastes like crunchy cucumber.
It smells like fresh air.
It feels like herbs.
YELLOW, BLACK, GREEN PEACE BY TAMARA
It looks like corn.
It sounds like rustling leaves.
It tastes like fresh air.
It smells like earth and dirt.
It feels cool!
Aileen Cassinetto 