Prepare the space

For children

Display all, or some, of the items below.

Seeds of plants of different kinds. You will need ones of different colours for some of the craft activities, so include different coloured grains and dried peas and beans.

If possible, include some packets of vegetable seeds — to contrast what is inside with the picture of the grown product on the outside.

Just before the session, cut open a few pieces of fruit to display the seeds or pips inside.

Pictures of plants and trees ready to be harvested — fruit trees, fruit bushes, fields of wheat and so on.

A pot of earth or compost.

For young people

Find a picture or poster of a field filled with wheat. Or project a similar image as a slide or in PowerPoint™. On a table in front of this scene place a single grain of wheat (from a granary loaf), a pile of earth and the words lose , follow , honour and glory .