Now a days our four and a half year old daughter, Avi and I, have been using nature and including them in our crafts.
You can recycle and reuse many outdoor flower petals, seeds and shells to make beautiful creations such as using pistachio shells to create flowers, mushrooms to make prints out of or rose petals to make a beautiful butterfly scene choices are endless.
Here are some of the creations inspired by nature that Avi made.
Flower petals along with markers on colored paper.
Mushrooms used as stamps or spongelike tool for painting.
Fallen rose petals from our garden glued to construction paper.
Four-year old Helping Ninja Avi loves to garden! Thank you Avi for helping to grow gardens! ❤️🌎🌱
Avika is very kind and compassionate and loves to garden and loves all animals. Daily she enjoys picking flowers from the garden along with watering her own garden and flowers!
Avi loves watching how the flowers bloom and how vegetables grow, and looks forward to eating them. ☺️🍅🌻
About eight months ago, our family met Tammy, through our volunteer work at Second Helpings. (Tammy is volunteer there too). Chef had told her about Helping Ninjas, and Tammy asked us if our ninjas could help her community youth group. We were eager to help and decided what better way than to help the children was to give them an opportunity to learn to grow their own food.
Due to the stay and home orders, we were unable to meet until recently. The garden was a success and all involved learned something new.
Afterwards, Helping Ninjas founder and our eleven year-old son, Leo, said to me:
“Mom, we should do more gardens. We can help more people.”
And I agreed. ☺️
The idea is to engage youth and to educate them on all aspects of gardening. From soil to seed, each plant and flower has a purpose and will continue to provide year after year. Each food item harvested becomes next year’s garden seeds. Through this iniatative we hope to help teach other children how to grow gardens!
“Everyone deserves access to fresh food,” said Leo Berry, eleven-year old founder of Helping Ninjas and CCS student. “If we all work together, we can help.”
From 2017 to date, Helping Ninjas has organized local Carmel youth to learn to grow organic gardens at schools, in after-school programs, in their backyards, in the Carmel community garden, and donated fresh produce to their community and to Second Helpings in Indianapolis.
