Success StoryMunchkin and Me "One Bean" Garden Project



Munchkin and Me "One Bean" Garden Project

Author: Alethea Price

Planning Unit: Boyle County CES

Major Program: LEAP

Plan of Work: Acquisition of Life Skills

Outcome: Initial Outcome


Family and Consumer Sciences Extension focuses on individual and family development by promoting effective communication, understanding developmental ages and stages, appreciating individual and cultural differences, developing a strong value system, making wise decisions, and encouraging a supportive environment.

Munchkin and Me is a program the FCS Agent partnered with the Community Arts Center now Art Center of the Bluegrass. We combined a popular preschool children's art class with LEAP for a more well rounded program. The class starts with a book and nutrition lesson taught by the FCS agent. This is followed by an arts engagement activity that is somehow related to the book. 

"One Bean" is one of the books recommended for the LEAP program. It goes through the story of a brother and sister who plant bean seeds and grow a bean plant. The activity for this lesson was to make a decorative seed starter and place a bush bean seed inside to watch it grow.

There were 3 kids and three parent/guardians who participated in the project. This summer one of the participants contacted the FCS Agent with an update about their plants. They are still growing and now producing beans!







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