Growing a Garden – Songs for Senior Living Communities

 

Growing a garden can be fun and therapeutic. However, not everyone is able or into digging into dirt so let’s grow a garden of songs for those in senior living communities.

 

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
• Octopus’ Garden
• The Garden Song
• Tip Toe Through the Tulips
• Went to a Garden Party
• Safe In My Garden 

Songs about flowers:

• White Coral Bells
• Red Roses for a Blue Lady
• Yellow Rose of Texas
• Carolina in the Morning
• In the Garden
• Edelweiss
• Hi-Lily, Hi-Lo
• Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Songs about fruits and vegetables:

• Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
• Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
• Scarborough Fair
• Banana Boat Song
• Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree
• Lemon Tree

Some related songs:

• Morning Has Broken
• April Showers
• When It’s Springtime in the Rockies

To add some conversation on growing a garden,

1. Bring in: garden gloves, trowel, potting soil, clay post, herbs, seeds, pictures of vegetables, a picture of a hoe.
2. Discuss types of gardens people have had, what they planted, their successes and failures. Be sure and ask if they had a Victory Garden.
3. Ask them to define a weed and list various types of weeds.
4. Plan a garden or container garden.

Add you ideas for a growing a garden conversation in the comments below.

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