Art in the Garden

Nature is the inspiration for many works of art, dance, music, and drama. Your school garden is a small piece of nature that can inspire budding artists. Activity ideas:

• Create paintings and drawings of garden plants.

• Paint a class garden mural to hang in the hallway for parents’ night.

• Make a seed mosaic.

• Create a color wheel collage using pictures from old seed catalogs.

• Make musical instruments from gourds and learn how to play them.

• Make prints using paint and stamps made from various plant parts.

• Create and perform a garden-inspired dance expressing the growth of a seed or the opening of a flower bud.

• Pantomime various gardening tasks (transplanting, fertilizing, sowing seeds, pollinating).

• Learn a collection of songs that relate to food, gardens, and the environment.

• Draw your dream garden.

• Listen to the music of composers inspired by nature.

• Build clay or tissue paper models of flowers.

• Use leaves to make crayon rubbings or fossils in clay.

• Using a movie camera with single-frame capability, make a time-lapse film
  of a plant growing.

• Create a skit about food safety.

• Paint a classroom mural using samples of different soils as the medium.

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​Source: California School Garden Network: Gardens for Learning