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GROWING ALL OVER

HELP! The birds are eating our snow peas. I put a call out for kids to join me at Manning Valley community gardens to make a couple of scarecrows and miraculously the social media flyer reached Great Child Foundation- Buwambo in Uganda who asked if they could participate via video link.

We started the activity by drawing our designs, then loaded up donated clothes with straw hay. A sturdy star picket at the base held them in place and arm and leg openings were tied with twine to stop stuffing falling out. Boots, belts, hats and gloves were scattered all over the grass but as each

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