Ice Castle Day

Every year there is a ice castle built for the seedlings/Sunflower families to enjoy. Actually, the Sunflower families help to build it too, with people freezing their own decorated blocks to add to the top. It's a lot of work and fun.

Adding our frozen block

The Ice Castle is almost done!

Seedlings graduation

It's the end of the school year. We're done at seedlings. The graduates are crossing a bridge to new adventures.

One last time at the park together.

Seedlings half birthday celebration

Seedlings have a little celebration for the birthday kids, or for those kids with summer birthdays they celebrate the half birthday. They have a sweet little ceremony, with a candle made of pats of love.

Making the birthday candle.

With good friends

In the Valley

Seedlings start a garden

They started a garden at seedlings. The kids all helped, either with moving soil or planting seeds.

Pictures from Seedlings

The Seedlings program requires that parents volunteer every so often. Here are pictures from one day I was there. Kids are free to do whatever they want. They could spend all day on the swings if they wanted to. There are activities set up and parents are to help the activities and with snack. Snack is all organic and nut free. This particular day we had sun butter sandwiches and fruit. Some days the kids do a cooking activity. Most kids end up ditching shoes. There's also a extra clothing area in case the kids play require a exchange of clothes, since they have access to water and sand. Everything is reusable, towels for cleanup and cups for drinking, so laundry needs to be done by one of the parents every week.

Playground

Outdoor activity tables

Playing with mixing materials

Indoor activity tables

Outdoor clean up station

Snack time

Impromptu music session

Play based learning

I found a wonderful program for my daughter. She's old enough now to enroll in Kindergarden, but I didn't want to limit her to the local schools. She's already reading now, so I'm not concerned so much about academics yet. The program is called Seedlings from Sunflower Creative Arts.