Operation: Vegetables - The Giant Board Game of Yummy Health

Operation: Vegetables - The Giant Board Game of Yummy Health Operation Vegetables: The Big, Giant Board Game of Yummy Health! (c) 2016 Zolten Wood Design, Funded by Northeast Shores, Cleveland & ArtPlaceAmerica

Healthy Eating Just Got FUN! Operation: Vegetables - The Giant Board Game of Yummy Health

An active game to create funny veggie superheroes, supervillians and fruit sidekick characters to encourage reading skills, and prompt action and reaction. A mix of large scale Twister-like active game board, with Chutes and Ladders meets Candyland but all colorful veggies and fruits. Kids become game piece

s and move around the board, while helpers read and fetch the dice. Children from past workshops designed and named the action card characters, and Linda Zolten Wood assigned them funny actions for the kids to follow: hopping, jumping, skipping and twirling due to positive or negatives associated with their identities (sour lemons, hot peppers, crunchy apples, etc). The game is often paired with a raised garden box planted with fresh veggies and herbs, then painted with the characters, as well as supported by a painted rain barrel. Created by 2016 Ballot Box Project Grantee Linda Zolten Wood, who engaged Collinwood children from 1st - 5th grades at Memorial Nottingham Library (Mem/Nott), Grovewood Road Salvation Army Summer Camp and Collinwood Branch Library. The game is positioned in the kids section of the Library, with the garden box directly outside of the children’s section windows, echoing the accent colors of Mem/Nott’s architecture and the painted rain barrel hand selected for the blues and greens designed by local architect Richard Fleischman. Memorial Nottingham Library‘s new Vegetable Garden box is for the families of the neighborhood to water, nurture and harvest while they enjoy their artwork and is OPEN to anyone who wants to help throughout the Summer & Fall until the first frost. Children's Librarian Libby Hampton can be contacted at (216) 623-7038 to learn more about the garden and how to volunteer. The box will be replanted each Summer as long as there is support and interest. This project was Generously Supported by:
, Shores & voted for by the residents of Ward 8: Collinwood, Ohio, with added support by The Collinwood Painted Rain Barrel Project, Neighborhood Connections, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, Cleveland Water and Cleveland Climate Action Fund. Tax-deductible donations are welcome. If you want a game for your site, contact [email protected].

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Rhubarb!! Chives!! Flowers!! Haven’t gotten my veg starts yet but am thinking about Cherry tomatoes and English cucumbers. I have walking onions, chives and wild garlic already.
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Garden Hack: Trimmings pile becomes hospitable to life, eventually compost!!!🌿🌸☔️
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Garden Hack: Trimmings pile becomes hospitable to life, eventually compost!!!🌿🌸☔️

Stop throwing your hedge trimmings in the trash.

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Bumblebee queens looking for ground cavities sometimes settle into the bottom layer.

By the time the pile breaks down (usually 2 to 4 years), it's added compost-quality humus to your soil and hosted dozens of species along the way.

Pile it in a corner, two feet wide, three feet tall, somewhere out of sight. The wildlife finds it on its own.

The neat yard you've been bagging things to maintain has been quietly empty. The messy corner is the part that's alive.

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Boiling water kills w**ds in driveway and patio cracks in a single application. No glyphosate, no runoff, no residue.

Pour from a kettle or pot directly onto the w**d and into the crack around its base. The heat ruptures the cell walls of the plant down to the root.

Reapply once a month during the growing season for new seedlings. Once a season is usually enough.

You're paying for a kettle of boiling water you might already be making for tea.

The hardware store version costs $25 for the same result, plus a chemical residue your neighborhood storm drain doesn't need.

Look at this Beautiful 3D Printed Dice (Die) that is our Prototype.2!! Thanks to Master Collective’s Robert Gatewood!!! ...
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Upcycled Garden tips: 🥳🌿🌸
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Last Day with the 3rd Graders at D**e School of the Arts Playing the Game and Creating Upcycled Sun Catchers - We had Gr...
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Last Day with the 3rd Graders at D**e School of the Arts Playing the Game and Creating Upcycled Sun Catchers - We had Great Fun and they did Beautiful work! Hope to see you at your new school next year!! Center for Arts-Inspired Learning

Wonderful Upcycled Suncatchers and Veggie Superhero/Supervillain GAME 2nd class of 3rd grade at D**e School of the Arts🥳...
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