Rooted Readers Resources
Cooperative Games & Movement
In Rooted Readers, we do more than just read books and explore in the garden, we play a lot of cooperative games too! These games can be done with large groups, small groups, or on your own.
Turn yourself into a worm, caterpillar, spider, butterfly, bird or one of the many creatures you can sometimes find in the garden using these Garden Creature Yoga Pose pictures.
These yoga poses will move you through the four seasons and the life cycle of a flower. Take it slow or speed right through, use these Seed to Flower Yoga Pose pictures to stretch out like your favorite flower on a sunny day.
Learn how flowers open during the day to attract pollinators and close at night to protect their pollen, while balancing on your seat! Stretch like blooming petals and scrunch up like closed buds with the Flowers Day & Night Balancing pictures.
Mixed Up Rooted Cooperative Game
Coming Soon!
Partner Insect Challenge Cooperative Game
Coming Soon!
Tree Yoga Poses
Coming Soon!
Book Lists
Start your garden exploration with these books. Dirt, bees, seeds and more coming soon!
Start your soil observations here, with four books all about digging in the dirt and what you might find there. When you’re done reading, head outdoors for some soil exploration of your own.
Get started with with these flower books, where you’ll find stories about some very special flowers and the people and forest critters that care about them.
Busy Buzzy Bees in the Garden
Book List 3 Coming Soon!
Seeds Travel (and you can eat some!)
Book List 4 Coming Soon!
Arts & Crafts
Pipe cleaners, paper, markers and crayons - here are some fun garden themed crafts you can try at home
Make your own busy buzzy bees with pipe cleaners, tissue paper and a pencil - the How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Bee directions are available to get your hive started.
Make a pollinator ring with just three pipe cleaners, your finger and these How to Make a Pipe Cleaner Butterfly Ring directions.
One square piece of paper becomes a tulip with the How to Make a Origami Tulip directions. Make a single flower or a whole colorful bouquet.
Pipe Cleaner Flowers
Coming Soon!