Crackin' Cress Heads
Enjoying growing cress at home by decorating eggshells with living cress hair!
We’d love to see your Crackin' Cress Heads, so why not share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture
The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society education team have been working hard over the last few weeks to create educational home learning activities and resources for parents to use when children are at home during this time. These activities are based around the topics of food, farming, the countryside and the environment.
Our Education Development Manager will be putting together lots of fun activities and projects for all ages that can be completed during this time of isolation.
Please click the buttons below to download our activity packs.
Have a go at these learning activities to inspire and educate. We would love to see any work produced and learning activities in action, so please share your photos on social media, use the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture and tag us - Twitter @LincsShowground & @LASEducation, Facebook LincolnshireShowground and Instagram @ShowgLincs.
Enjoying growing cress at home by decorating eggshells with living cress hair!
We’d love to see your Crackin' Cress Heads, so why not share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture
Explore your garden and enjoy identifying the signs of spring. Collect pairs of similar-looking leaves, flowers, petals and blossom and use your spring finds to make a set of snap cards to play with.
We’d love to see your Springtime Snap cards, so why not share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture
Ruth Wilkinson from Wooden Spoon & Whisk works with us on educational events throughout the year. During this time she has been working with some of Oxford University's staff to provide online cookery sessions, she spoke to us all about what she's been working on and sent us her delicious oat cookie recipe!
We've designed exciting gardening projects that all ages can get involved with, make a mini-greenhouse using a recycled plastic bottle, grow your own sunflower and how to make a plant pot out of newspaper!
Download the activities below or click here to download a gardening themed wordsearch.
We’d love to see your mini greenhouses and sunflowers, so why not share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture
We've designed fun activities all about natural habitats.
Build your own mini beast mansion! Minibeasts are valuable friends to our gardens and vital to the natural world. They are essential in encouraging the pollination of flowers and plants and are useful workers when it comes to decomposition, it’s really important that we look after them.
Whilst you are outside getting some fresh air and exercise, why don’t you go on a bug hunt?
Download the activities below.
We’d love to see you getting involved in our Habitat Haven activities so why not share them on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter using the hashtag #ArmchairAgriculture
Dairy delights - the process of milk production!
You might already know that milk comes from cows, but how does it get from the farm to your bowl? Try out our activity by downloading the worksheet below, can you cut out the images and sequence them on the journey line below to show the story of milk.
The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society celebrated Lincolnshire Day Online this year on Thursday 1 October. The online event was in place of what would have been the fourth Lincolnshire Day school event this year, where 500+ Key Stage 1 and 2 children visit the Lincolnshire Showground to connect and celebrate everything that’s great about our county – it’s food, farming, aviation, heritage, sport and lots more.
The online event provided six zones of educational entertainment including ‘Farming in Lincolnshire’, ‘Animals – Lincolnshire Breeds’, ‘Lincolnshire Kitchen’, ‘Heritage and Aviation’, ‘Coast and County’ and ‘Sport’. The event attracted over 400 users, 1,600 page views and viewers from locations across the UK. You can view the Lincolnshire Day Online at www.lincolnshiredayonline.co.uk
We need to protect and look after our planet so that it is a safe and healthy place to live, not only for yourselves but for future generations too. One way that we can do this is by recycling. We have a mission for you…. Get creative with your household recycling to design and make a junk model farmyard animal character. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place- winning entries will receive a family ticket to Countryside Lincs!
The Lincolnshire Agricultural Society is a charity that is passionate about agricultural education and countryside learning.
As a charity we rely on income from our events to deliver our Education Programme and support the local community, however this income has fallen drastically due to Covid-19. We need your support to ensure the Showground can continue to deliver outstanding events and provide our Educational Programme.
Anything you can give, large or small, will make a difference - thank you.
