Primary Times - the definitive what’s on and where to go family guide of activities and events for children of primary school age. Things to do with your kids during the school holidays including arts and craft activities, music and theatre for children, parties, competitions, days out, and family attractions along with term time drama schools, dance classes, after school clubs and sports activities. Things to do at a place near you!
Grow Your Own
Grow Your Own…. 
We have national awareness days, weeks and months, and nowadays even some of our humble veggies get a day or week dedicated to them! Thousands of urban Scots are joining the surge in community gardening. The potential for Community Food Hubs and pocket sized urban Edens continue to root themselves in patches of land, once unused or unloved. Just as new build housing is springing out of unused sites, so are the impressive bamboo wigwam constructions as community projects grow in popularity. It’s great to see so much community gardening activity right across the city and beyond!
From Pot to Plate
Along with all the green-fingered activities, local projects are pulling in visitors with taste and tour sessions, workshops and homemade hot soup gardens. Special and seasonal events at community hubs are a great playground to get the green fingers growing early as children take part in activities of starting composting, sowing, preparing the soil, arts and craft and much more...
Making 2017 More Fruitful for Others!
Community projects like Move More is a project based at the Edible Gardening Project at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and run by Macmillan Cancer Support and Edinburgh Leisure. The aim of Move More is to help people who have had cancer, and their friends and family, to get active through gardening. There’s also care homes like Cairndean House, keen to have gardeners to come and use part of its grounds for community gardening.
Edinburgh has a vibrant network of gardens. So, go to Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust and click on the map to find out more about the gardens on your doorstep: http://www.elgt.org.uk/projects/community-gardening
Growing Schools Outdoors 
Some schools such as Liberton Primary School are collaborating with community gardens like Bridgend Growing Communities. This creates a mutual benefit whereby teachers gain an outdoor classroom and pupils get to learn through games, hands-on learning experiences in biology and ecology, horticulture, nutrition, recycling, composting. Learning closer to nature and a great opportunity to get those hands dirty to support a local garden. Enjoy an outdoor lunch and if you’re lucky enough, a fresh pizza from a pizza oven. Harvesting must be a definite highlight!
The Power of Food Festival
17 – 18 June
A weekend festival celebrating community gardens in Edinburgh. Its purpose is to encourage greater societal wellbeing, environmental sustainability and social inclusion through the promotion of community food growing. During the space of a weekend, numerous community gardens that grow food in Edinburgh open their gates and offer fun and entertainment to the public. It's a great way for the gardens to celebrate their achievements and for the public to have the opportunity to visit places in their neighbourhood they might not yet have ventured! It's really family friendly and a lot of the events are geared towards kids. In the past, events have included everything from bug hunts, cooking, workshops and yoga sessions to musicians and choir performances. The festival is run by volunteers & entirely free.
There is more information on the website: www.poweroffoodfestival.wordpress.com
Garden Projects At Home
There’s plenty reason to get the entire family involved at home to grow a love of gardening, even a small window box as a micro-garden can inspire children with easy-to-grow plants. Home projects make a great start in providing some fascinating facts for very curious little minds! Track the garden snails, photograph and draw insects on the garden flowers, create a garden scrapbook. Beyond the front door, become a leaf collector, go on a scent trail, select plants that begin with letters that spell out your name…..
It’s important to make first gardening experiences positive and fruitful! For expert advice on what to grow throughout the months and seasons visit: http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/in-month/
Here’s hoping for many harvest parties, bonfires, tasty food, crafts, learning and growing whilst going greener by lowering some food miles!