Cress head competition

“Hey dude, i’m liking the new hair do!” —The cress head film competition invites children to create animations using home-grown produce

Dorset Cereals has launched a ‘Make Your Own Cress Head Film’ competition as part of the company’s Edible Playground initiative. The competition aims to encourage schools, friends and families to get together and get growing, filming and then eating their own produce.

What could be easier than growing some cress heads, decorating the eggs to make little characters and filming the cress as they grows over a week? The competition provides opportunity for a fun cross curricular project to carry out in a classroom – combining health and wellbeing, science, ICT and drama.

What an egg-celent competition!

The competition is open to all ages young and old and the top five winning film entries will win a much coveted flip camera worth £80. The deadline for entries is 20 October 2009. All you need to enter is access to a computer, a digital camera, some eggs, some Lego, a few cress seeds and some imagination.

Dorset Cereals has produced a full explanation of how to make your own cress heads and how to bring them to life using animation for their film competition. To sign up or find out more about how to get growing fruit and vegetables with children (and to check out the competition’s initial entries complete with homemade soundtrack and scenery) visit the website www.edibleplaygrounds.co.uk

Further information

Dorset Cereals has supported the Edible Playgrounds initiative for over two years and has helped hundreds of UK schools establish fruit and vegetable plots. The company is committed to getting every primary school in the country growing food in their playgrounds. The initiative is also supported by the Royal Horticultural Society’s Campaign for School Gardening.