Mrs Maker's Projects

As part of our son's Marvellous Me week, I had the chance to visit his class and share something close to my heart: the origins of food crops, biodiversity, and the importance of crop and species diversity across ecosystems. I brought along a variety of apples, onions, and potatoes for the children to explore, with the help of my younger son. The kids were fascinated and even got to draw the fruits and vegetables we discussed. It was a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of preserving biodiversity—something that will affect us all now and in the future. By having the children draw different types of crops, they engaged in a fun, hands-on way to learn about crop diversity and the richness of our ecosystems. It’s such a simple yet powerful way to teach these essential concepts!.  An easy way to teach kids about crop diversity is to ask them draw it!  

Tonight, my oldest (age 6,5 years) drew some Red-bellied piranhas. Here are his fresh comments:  ”Red-bellied piranhas have snapping mouth, because they like to eat all the time. They are too hungry, because they have small sharp teeth. It means that they are fishers who are dangerous to small fishes. This means they eat small fishes. So, when they are too hungry they need to find small fishes or sometimes they eat fish eggs. Noin ne tekee oikeasti . That is what they are doing really. Now you know about Piranhas, the fishers. In some countries, these people who live in rainforests, they use piranhas for scissors. That helps rainforest people to live.”