Garden Picnic at KHCC

Picnic ran well with over 30 attending over the course of two hours - we had scarecrow making, house building, drawing our garden, voxpop interviews, marking on our green spaces on map (across KH), butternut tereme and flapjacks. I'll edit voxpop in a bit and add here - some interesting comments on the garden and what we should be doing.

For the time being, a few photos from our event:

Garden day in Easter hols

We're inviting everyone into our garden to have some fun and some find out your ideas for how you want our garden to look.  There'll be a few family activities and an opportunity for some gardening.  Tea, coffee, biscuits provided.

KHCC Stay & Play will also be open as usual during the school holidays, Thursdays 10 to 12.

Garden Day

KHCC Stay and Play is only open on Thursday 16th February, siblings welcome, and will have a food theme.

Following stay and play we will have a family garden afternoon, all welcome:

Garden tots will restart on Wednesday 22nd February, 12 to 2, and continue every Wednesday from then, weather permitting.

Wishing you Wassail!

A beautiful day, and thanks to all who came to our garden to wish Wassail to the New year!  Much thanks to Brethren Border Morris, Catriona and Sharon, Pam and Alys for dancing, singing, storytelling, and expertly pruning our fruit to wish in a fruitful new year.

Homes in the garden

Today's theme was 'Home'.  First we searched for homes already in our garden.

'The bugman showed us where to look'

We looked at wormcasts, cobwebs and other homes in the garden.  The we made our own homes, ready for 'Three Little Pigs' and other stories.

Looking at a spider's web

At home under the picnic bench

Building a home for the three little pigs

I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down!

More stories of building

Pirate Potato Treasure

Great day of pirate shinnanigans, Aaargh!

Maps, check, Hats, check

We're going this way, that way , forward, backward, over the Irish Sea!

Pebble treasure here.

Digging for potato treasure

Pirates always share their treasure!

Fair Food Art

First of a couple of food art workshops at the stay & play in the garden.  A mix of fairtrade and locally foraged fruit and nuts rolled, cut, printed.

Easter Hols Events

Wednesday 13th April

10:30 to 12:30

Toddle Waddle Moseley Bog

Meet Wake Green Road Entrance (near Cole Bank Roundabout)

Please bring picnic things to share

Toddle Waddle is a fun way for the under 5s to do their bit to promote awareness of meningitis with their very own sponsored walk, or waddle! (over 5s and adults welcome)

In April 2011 it will be our 4th Toddle Waddle and only the12th UK Waddle with nurseries, toddler groups, primary schools and crèches organising their own event in parks, playgrounds, activity centres and sports grounds across the country.

KHCC Stay and Play

Thursday 14th April 10 to 1

Potato Day

Range of Potato related activities, including planting them.
Older siblings welcome

Please bring Picnic things for after.

20th and 21st April, no Stay and Play at Community Centre

Out in all weathers?

Well, not quite.  But here is us outside last Thursday:

And Sarah, admiring the Brussels, pea-sized.  Need to work on next year:

Harvest photos

Voodoo vegetables

Mud, blood or slime anyone? Jago, Morgane and Arthur at the magic potions

Messy work painting a cauldron black

Fishing for bugs

Pumpkin plates

Harvest Haloween was very well attended - we had loads of activities including the above, all the usual, feelie box, Jack Frost story performed by Arthur, Morgane, Jago and Eva, and not forgetting pumpkin soup and flapjacks to finish.  Thanks everyone!

Harvest Haloween

Thursday 28th October 2010

10:00 to 1:00

Kings Heath Community Centre 

Stay & Play

Activities for under 5s, over 5s welcome

Please bring a vegetable or two 

(for vegetable voodoo, not to eat)

£2.00 entry


Pumpkin soup, bread and flapjacks in garden at 12:15.

Catching up - our history

There's bags more stuff available at the official Kings Heath Community Centre site.  The start of the stay & play group's involvement was in 2004 - we got funding to start develop a garden space.

Since then, we've slowly moved things on with a bit of help from Real Time Community Change and Highbury Cluster, working with Kings Heath Primary Playscheme on events like 'Tree Love' in 2007, extended radically by Alys Fowler and Oz of Clean and Green earlier this year.