Green Fingers packs natural fun

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

(Photograph) - Jake Clarke from Duddington nursery in Edinburgh (above) enjoys going back to nature at the launch of Scottish National Heritages's Wee Green Fingers Fun Pack at Battleby in Perth. The pack includes a range of activities to teach young children about wildlife and the environment. They can paint trees with 'paintless water', sow their own miniature cornfield, make their own natural perfumes and potions and use paint colour strips from DIY shops to match up colours. There are games, stickers and postcards with poems by award-winning writer Linda Cracknell, and sunflower seeds for children to start growing their own garden. Bonnie Maggio, the fun pack's co-ordinator, said, 'This generation of children are more alienated from the natural world than ever before. We hope that by providing incentives like the Wee Green Fingers Fun Pack, we can inspire them to discover the wonders of nature in the same way that their parents and grandparents did.' Wee Green Fingers Fun Packs are free to anyone who works with or looks after young children. Contact Karen Smith at Scottish National Heritage on 01738 444 177. Photo: Mark Ferguson/Newsflash