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Sprout Club Week 5 Instructions!

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Week # 5 – July 29th

Activity Title Colourful Leaf Prints

 

Instructions:

 

  1. Find as many leaves as you want (the more interesting the veins on the back of the leaf the cooler the art)
  2. Colour whatever designs you want onto the back of it
  3. Press leaf, coloured side down onto the paper
  4. Take leaf off and enjoy!

 

Supplies :

  • Blank sheet of paper 
  • As many leaves as you want
  • Markers

 

Learning Goals:

 

Making Colourful Leaf Prints prompts children to be more aware of nature. and allows them appreciate, and learn more about the anatomy of leaves.

Sprout Club Week 4 Instructions!

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Join us every week until September 2nd at the Sprout Club Tent for a free activity or craft that looks at nature and food systems.

You can find the tent off of Queens Ave next to the Info Tent.

This week our Sprout Club activity is from our Guest Artist, Holly Nickerson, and she has made up some special step by step instructions with photos!

Rainbow Nature Scavenger Hunt:

Supplies:
– Construction paper, or other sturdy paper in white, green, red, blue, pink, yellow, and black. One sheet of each is more than enough. 
– glue stick to adhere the paper pockets to the white construction paper base 
-scissors to cut out the pockets
– markers, crayons, pencil crayons….anything to decorate the sheet with and label the pockets!
 
Steps:
1. Using only the coloured construction paper cut out a 4”x4” square of each colour.
*pocket options* measurements given are approximate. Feel free to make your pockets larger or smaller depending on the size of your paper and how crafty you want to get with it! Just be sure to leave some room for those folded edges, otherwise there won’t be any pockets!
2. Create a 1/2” fold on three of the edges on each square
 
3. Using the glue stick, glue the folded edge of each coloured square onto the sheet of white construction paper to form a colourful pocket. Be sure that all of the non folded edges of the squares are all at the top so items can be placed in the pockets!  *TIP* when gluing the pockets onto the white construction paper be sure to leave some space for decoration!
4. Using markers, crayons, or pencil crayons (really whatever you like!) decorate the page. Some options are to label each pocket with the colour name, put your name at the top of the page, doodle some designs of the items you want to collect…..and more!
 
5. Go scavenge! The goal is to find one item in nature that corresponds with the colour of the pocket you created, and to place that item in the pocket. Get creative, it’s not just grass and leaves that are green 🙂
 

COVID PROTOCOL UPDATE 07/06/2021

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COVID PROTOCOL UPDATE! (July 6, 2021)

The PHO Orders for markets have changed and we are working on a slow and safe transition towards loosening (and ultimately eliminating) our restrictions. Please bear with us as we do our absolute best to keep everyone safe and adjust.

Starting July 8th shoppers can enter and exit at three locations:

  • the top of Tipperary Park (where our entrance has been),
  • in front of City Hall (where our exit has been),
  • *new* at the bend at 4th and Royal.

With three entrance/exits we are no longer able to support priority entrance, and now all shoppers can join us beginning at 3pm.

Going forward customers can now move around inside the market in any direction as long as distance is kept and others can pass safely.

Please keep in mind that though the restrictions have been mostly lifted, COVID-19 is still very real and many people around you have not had their second vaccine or are at a different level of comfort than you. Please be considerate and keep your distance, consider continuing to wear a mask, and be understanding to staff and volunteers at the market.

The caution tape will remain up, and we are still unable to have dogs at the market.

Above all else, remember that everyone is doing their best and being respectful of others is key.

As further adjustments are made we will keep you updated! Have questions? Please email us.

Easter at NWFM

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Join us for Easter and find the golden eggs!

That’s right! Swing by our first market of the season, April 1st, and find the golden eggs hidden throughout the market by New Westminster Parks and Rec and you could win! Each egg has a prize!

Find us in Tipperary Park on April 1st. Priority entrance for seniors, those with disabilities and those with small children is from 3-3:15. General entrance is 3:15-7!

We’ll see you at the market!

 

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Our market is grateful to operate on the unceded land of the Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem, and other Halkomelem speaking Peoples. We acknowledge that colonialism has made invisible their histories and connections to the land. We acknowledge the incredible gift this land is to our market and BC Agriculture. We commit to the ongoing work of decolonization and allyship.