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Eco / Garden

CC Juniors Autumn Fun

We met this time with a pumpkin theme! Bernadette is demonstrating the reuse of pumpkin shells to turn into hanging bird feeders! Let’s hope the birds love them! The kids are getting stuck into planting daffodil bulbs for next spring. Thanks to the Garden Gang for building this area dedicated to flowers for the bees.

We have also been collecting seed pods from the wigwam. These started out as the ones we grew from seed last year! It’s been great to watch their grow and flowering cycle and we hope these little wool pots will soon be germinating next years plants. It was a fun afternoon 🎃

Who doesn’t love getting dirty?! 🤩

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CC Juniors & the hedgehog day!

Today we had a lovely visit from the ladies at Hogs Croft hedgehog sanctuary. We really enjoyed it! We had lots of great questions to ask such as “how fast can hedgehogs run” (and wow it’s fast!) and “what do they eat” and “how many babies do they have” ! We have learned a lot and we are doing very well with our little area to encourage a hedgehog to come and live in the church orchard 🙂

cafe / Garden

Lovely Flowers!

We are very pleased to see all the flowers this year in the church gardens. Here we find Charlie sitting amongst the sweet peas that the CC Juniors grew from seed! It’s been a poor summer so the plants are not as tall as we hoped but they smell lovely and Charlie was happy to pick some to take home. The more we pick the more they grow! We have grown lots of alstroemeria which have appeared on the Altar recently as well as other lovely flowers and Judi picked this bunch as her prize in the raffle! 🙂

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CC Juniors and the Sweet Pea Wigwam!

Today we have been planting out our sweet pea seedlings around the wigwam. We filled the bird feeders and the hedgehog dishes, we planted sunflower seeds in the Mary Garden and we enjoyed some flower shaped snacks! Our little robin enjoyed our company too and he says that, even though the wigwam doesn’t look like much at the moment, it will definitely be very pretty by the time summer arrives! Fingers crossed for some warmer weather to really get the plants growing! 🙂 

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CC Juniors Litter Heroes!

Our March CC Juniors had a litter theme! On a wet and miserable afternoon we first of all tucked in to some “litter free snacks” with fruit which we peeled and put in the compost bin and blueberry muffins baked in washable moulds! We watched some videos about caring for our world and the importance of not dropping litter! These are the links to the short videos. 

As the rain had eased a bit, we braved it and headed out to do some litter picking – we had such a lot of fun, everyone was very enthusiastic and we think we did a great job! On the way we checked to see if a hedgehog had moved into the house yet and left some food just incase. Looking forward to next month – wonder what the children will be up to next! 🤩🌍🌸

CC Juniors Litter Heroes