Potato Parades for Refugee Festival!
Picnic & Play at The Hidden Gardens with Kin Kitchen
Find out what we got up to at our latest Picnic and Play in the Hidden Gardens!
Refugee Week!
Saturday 17th June
We had a wonderful time taking part in Refugee Festival 2023 celebrations earlier this month! We all gathered at the Hidden Gardens alongside our friends from Kin Kitchen and the Hidden Gardens Team.
We did lots of playing, dressing up and even went into the sea for a cool dip before the wolves told us it was time for gymnastics! It wasn’t quite lunchtime but we did fancy a little cake so we put our imaginations together to make a cake from a very particular recipe that included the ingredients
chocolate, sprinkles, snails and salty strawberries
After all that playing we tucked into a delicious and nutritious veggie picnic made by Kin Kitchen who afterwards helped and inspired us to make our own pickled mixtures! As well that, many of us enjoyed learning from the Hidden Gardens team about different plants and herbs and how we can look after our own at home!
At the end of the day a real highlight was dressing up potatoes for an almighty ‘Wacky Potato Parade’.
We paraded around as
- Mashed potatoes
- Fried potatoes
- Samba potatoes
- Dancing potatoes
Then with all that activity it was brilliant to make our own lavender pouches to take home and relax with and lots of us were in the mood for sitting down and doing some drawing and planting just before the rain started to drizzle! Didn’t dampen our spirits though!
Wow! What a day! My first picnic and play and what a brilliant one it was.
Thanks to our volunteers Gabe, Ibironke and Felicia for all their help and to Polina for all the fabulous photographs!
See you again soon, Emma!
Thanks for coming!
“I loved the potato parade, it was so fun”
Participant “Creative, interesting and lovely”
Participant “Lovely animal games with participation of everyone”
Participant “So great to see new faces and make new friends”
Participant “Makes me feel together…like I belong with other people”
Participant “It makes me feel happy because I have other people to play with”
Participant “I feel free, amazing and loved”
Participant “I love seeing my children feeling so happy. I also really enjoyed myself.’
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