Make a Batch of Body Butter for teens – Nancy, Noel & Nathasha Gordon, of Pearly Gates Soapery and Garden
Thursday, June 18 – 2PM @ Southeast
Take a bit of shea butter, jojoba oil, vitamin E, grapefruit seed extract and lavender essential oil, heat it up and mix it all around and that’s what its all about – making body butter, that is. Shea Butter is nature’s way of moisturizing even the dryest of skins. It has a melting point that is low enough, that when it touches your skin your own body heat causes it to melt and get absorbed right into your pores. Each teen will go home with a sample of this creamy all-over body moisturizer and a recipe to be able to make some at home.
Cocoa Butter Ice Cream Bath Fizzie Making (k-5) – Nancy, Noel & Nathasha Gordon, of Pearly Gates Soapery and Garden
Tuesday, June 23 – 2PM @ Plaza
Bath Fizzies are round balls of fizzy bath time fun that look like ice cream. Each one contains skin softening and smoothing bicarbonate of soda, corn starch, citric acid and lavender essential oils. Each child and accompanying adult will make a fizzie to take home, pop in bath water and watch it fizz away and release the goodness inside.
Grain, Grinding and Granola – Kathy Crowther, Bread of Life Organic Bakery, Stewartsville, Missouri –
Wednesday, June 24, – 10:30AM Trails West Branch
Children 5 and up can get an up-close look and feel of grains such as oats and flax and learn about the value of eating whole grains. Grinding of the grain by hand turning a wheel comes next, to see how it can become flour. Then each child will put together a small take-home bag of granola. All of this with the guidance of Kathy Crowther, of Bread of Life Organic Bakery, Stewartsville, Missouri.
Teens Growing Greens…and Other Stuff – Harvesters, KC Urban Youth Center, Troostwood Youth Garden
Wednesday, June 24 – 6-7:30PM – Central Library
There’s teens like you growing food in the city….and eating and cooking what they grow. omg! Can you believe it? Are you a teen? Do you want to know some stuff about growing food and why teens growing food are glad they are? If you do, come to this session and listen to what these teens are doing and why they are doing it. They will tell you. If you want you can bring your parent, aunt, uncle, granny or gramp along – or any grownup who wants to come. If you don’t want to bring one of them, just come on yourself. There’ll be some fun.
Worms Eat Our Trash – Eric Williams & Sarah McCoy-Harms of the green worm
Thurs. June 25 at 2pm – Waldo – (Pre-K to 5th Grade)
Eric & Sarah, the green worm friends, will guide children through the process of “farming” worms. Participants will learn introductory information about composting; how worms turn our trash into healthy soil in which happy, beautiful, good-tasting plants grow and bloom. There is a demonstration of how composting with a worm bin works!
My Blooming Garden.
Friday, June 19 – 7PM Family Night @ Plaza
Tuesday, June 23 – 10AM @ Southeast
Thursday, June 25 – 10AM @ Central
Come hear some fun stories about growing things and learn a bit about easy ways you can grow your own stories, food, and/or flowers. The Beanstalk Garden will provide information about gardening for teens and will help each participant plant their own seed to take home and nurture.