21st August 2009

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This week we've been playing in the garden.

Not our garden, though - the rather more impressive RHS garden at Harlow Carr. It's just a few miles away from us on the other side of Harrogate.

We teamed up with the lovely RHS people for their Family Fortnight by putting on a special activity day for kids. The idea was to raise awareness for our Yorkshire Rainforest Project, but to do it in a way that would be fun for the little ones.

: Outside in the garden for alfresco art...

So we put on a bit of craft workshop, with kids making wings to turn themselves into butterflies and parrots, as well as making rainforest tree 'shakers' and tribal jewellery. Through our community project the Cone Exchange, we already collect waste card and other things from our factory for local schools to re-use as craft materials, so there were all sorts of bits and bobs on hand for them to use.

All in all the day was really successful with several hundred children and their parents popping in to enjoy themselves over the course of the day - and hopefully we've helped them to better understand why the rainforest is quite so important too.

: ...and inside the 'yurt' making tree shakers

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