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NAS Children’s
Pumpkin Carving
Competition
We have three wonderful prizes to give away to entrants who send in pictures of their carved Halloween pumpkins. Doesn’t have to be a pumpkin –if you can spare it, how about carving up an exotic Turks’ Turban or other type of winter squash? Let your imagination run wild.
Enter for a chance to win a selection of tools and goodies from the new range of Moshi Monsters gardening sundries courtesy of The Conservation Volunteers.
Enter under one of the following categories:
- Under 10 years old - 10 – 15 years old
Please send in good quality images (over 1MB, 330 dpi) to natsoc@ nsalg.org.uk by the 21 November 2014 and we will have a gallery of winners and shortlisted entries in ALG 1 2015. Check out T&C (p3) and the competitions page on the NAS website for full competition rules.
Chocolate Chillies, Tarzan Radishes and Meteor Peas in your back garden?
The Conservation Volunteers have teamed up with Moshi Monsters to get children gardening
Children love gardening. They enjoy the excitement of waiting for a seed to sprout, learning how they can help their plants grow, tending their little plots and even growing their own vegetables. It is also a great way for them to have fun in the fresh air.
Thanks to national charity The Conservation Volunteers
(TCV) and the incredibly popular Moshi Monsters online game, children will now have the chance to use Moshi Monster branded gardening tools and even grow their very own Moshi fruit and vegetables with a unique range of specially chosen seeds.
For the very first time, you will be able to buy special Moshi Monsters seeds, meaning that children will be able to grow their very own unusual plants just like they do in the virtual game, except now it will be in their very own back garden, window box or plant pot. They might even find their way onto your dinner plate!
The new gardening range, which launches in September 2014, includes colourful spades, hoes, hand trowels, hand rakes, buckets, wheelbarrows, kneeler pads, rakes, garden brushes, hand forks, watering cans and gloves. New seed varieties include Tarzan Radish, Meteor Peas, Chocolate Chillies and a strange fruit called a Cucamelon.
This range has been created by TCV and Moshi Monsters, who have brought the online game to life to encourage more children to get outdoors, be active and get involved in gardening.
For all the latest news, hints and tips relating to the new Moshi range visit www.tcv.org.uk/moshi
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