A set of educational games designed by the Designing Hope Association to raise awareness among young children about sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and biodiversity.

These games have been designed, graphically developed and produced in recent years in limited quantities, using recycled materials, to meet the needs of educational gardens supported by Designing Hope and The Ivory Foundation in Southern Africa, West Africa and France.
Given the interest generated by these various games, the Designing Hope association has decided to publish them in order to make them available to a wider audience.


And so the Friends of the Vegetable Garden Gift Box was born…



The Friends of the Vegetable Garden Box Set

It includes nine original games designed by the association, which are also available for purchase individually, developed to raise awareness among young children about sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and biodiversity.
The cards were printed in France, the boxes in Italy, and the games were assembled in collaboration with ASEI in La Plaine St Denis, an association specializing in supporting, educating, and integrating people with disabilities and those who are dependent and vulnerable.
The Dessine l’Espoir association also partnered with the Garden of Skills sewing workshop in Eswatini for this box set, which produced six textile memory games, each containing 16 squares in a cotton bag (two feature squares of traditional shweshwe fabric in different patterns and colors, and the other four with printed vegetables that also need to be matched).

De la graine à l’assiette (From Seed to Plate game):
A memory game exploring how 9 fruits and vegetables evolve from the seed to the plate.
Contents: 54 cards (8 × 8 cm)9 informative cards (bilingual – French front / English back) and 9 team cards.
Suitable for ages 5+ – 16 euros


• Memory des légumes – Ouverts / Fermés (Open / Closed Vegetable Memory Game):
Match the pairs by associating each fruit or vegetable whole and cut.
Contents: 25 pairs (50 cards, 8 × 8 cm) + 25 name cards (bilingual – English on the back).
Suitable for ages 4+ – 16 euros


• Domino des légumes (Vegetable Dominoes):
Connect the vegetables while learning to recognise them.
Contents: 21 cards + 6 bonus cards for learning numbers (8 × 5 cm).
Suitable for ages 4+ – 9 euros


• Flash Potager (Flash Potager – Garden Flash Game):
A fast-paced game to recognise and name fruits, vegetables and garden helpers.
Contents: 54 cards (8 × 8 cm).
Bonus: a mini memory game (16 cards, 4 × 4 cm) featuring garden helpers included for free.
Suitable for ages 4+ – 16 euros (both included)


• Légumes & Recettes (Vegetables & Recipes):
Match each vegetable with the simple recipe it can be used to create.
Contents: 6 recipe cards (8 × 15 cm) (bilingual – English on the back), 54 ingredient cards6 team cards (4 × 4 cm).
Suitable for ages 5+ – 16 euros


• Les Gardiens des Éléments (Guardians of the Elements):
An observation and memory game introducing the four elements (Water, Air, Fire and Earth) and their guardians Aïga, Aura, Fuoc and Terra.
Contents: 4 game boards (30 × 8 cm) (bilingual – English on the back), 40 cards4 team cards.
Suitable for ages 5+ – 16 euros


• Tritoubac (Tritoubac – Waste Sorting Game):
An observation and memory game teaching children to sort waste into the correct one of five bins.
Contents: 5 game boards (30 × 8 cm) (bilingual – English on the back), 50 waste cards5 team cards.
Suitable for ages 6+ – 16 euros


• Le Memory des amis du jardin (Garden Friends Memory Game):
Discover beneficial garden creatures and learn about their role in biodiversity.
Contents: 16 cards (4 × 8 cm) (8 photos to match with 8 illustrations).
Suitable for ages 4+ – 8 euros


• Le Memory Textile (Textile Memory Game):
A handmade vegetable memory game produced in the sewing workshop of the Jardin des Savoir-Faire in Eswatini.
Contents: 16 double-layer cotton squares (12 × 12 cm) in a cotton pouch.
Suitable for ages 4+ – 22 euros



  • Discover below the gaming sessions organized by the association :

A big game of vegetable memory at La Traversine Bercy

In the garden at La Traversine Bercy, nursery school children took part in a game of vegetable memory, with cards showing vegetables in their ‘open’ and ‘closed’ states laid out on a large table in the garden.This game is part … Read More

A textile memory game made in Eswatini

Designing Hope entrusted the women of the Garden of Skills in Eswatini with the task of making textile memory games, which are now included in the “Friends of the Vegetable Garden” box set. Thirty-two fruits and vegetables were printed on … Read More

Presentation of the “Friends of the Vegetable Garden” box set in Southern Africa

The ‘Friends of the Vegetable Garden box set’ was designed by the Designing Hope Association as an educational tool to support its activities in France, Southern Africa and West Africa.This video shows how beneficiaries in Southern Africa have embraced these … Read More

Young residents at Levi’s Nek Farm discover the Friends of the Vegetable Garden box set

At Levi’s Nek Farm, founded with the support of The Ivory Foundation, young deaf and hard-of-hearing people have quickly embraced the new games in the Friends of the Vegetable Garden box set.The Seed to Plate Game and The Guardians of … Read More

Discovering the vegetable garden friends’ box, St Paul’s School, Lesotho.

The vegetable dominoes game and the Fast Potager game are part of the ‘Coffret des amis du Potager’ (Friends of the Vegetable Garden Box Set). Available from the online shop.

The young residents at Levi’s Nek present the vegetables in Memory using sign language.

At Levi’s Nek Farm, deaf and hard-of-hearing young people use the Open/Closed Vegetables Memory game to present the 25 vegetables illustrated in the game using sign language.Using the cards, they show the sign corresponding to each vegetable, creating a new … Read More

Discover the “Friends of the Garden” game box at the Halfway House in Roosboom

At the Halfway House in Roosboom, South Africa, Designing Hope welcomes orphaned children every afternoon for academic support, outdoor games and fun activities, before serving them a meal at the end of the day. Discovering the Friends of the Vegetable … Read More

Creation of a memory game with children from the Bercy nursery school

As the weather did not allow us to work in the vegetable garden, we decided to create a memory game with the children. We printed black and white drawings of fruit and vegetables in vegetable gardens or baskets on sheets … Read More

New games for the Petits Princes school in Rufisque, Senegal

Designing Hope has provided the Petits Princes school in Rufisque with new educational games for children, including memory games on vegetables and insects useful in the garden. These games, tested with the youngest pupils, have been very well received, enriching … Read More

A new generation in the garden: discovery and games with our young gardeners!

We’re delighted to welcome new groups to the Bercy garden. Curious and full of energy, they were able to explore the garden despite the cold and get a first taste of the plantations and tools they’ll be using in future … Read More

Vegetable domino game with children from the Handiscole school in Rufisque

Among the games available to children at the Rufisque school, the vegetable domino game is particularly popular. The children have to find the vegetables corresponding to their coloured board. They then have to sort the vegetables by size on their … Read More

Games with the children of the Handiscole school in Rufisque

Designing Hope has provided educational games based around vegetables, which are particularly popular with the children at the Rufisque school. Joseph is in charge of these classroom activities, as well as working directly on the school roof to water and … Read More

Vegetable color family game with children from Bercy school

This Wednesday, February 14th, the children at Bercy school played a board game that challenges their memory and cooperation: the vegetable colour families game! The game includes 7 vegetable colours, with 6 vegetables per colour, making 42 cards in duplicate. … Read More

Game about the vegetables at Roosboom

Children enthusiastically play the games developed by Dessine l’Espoir around vegetables from the kitchen garden. These fun and educational activities enable youngsters to discover the world of vegetables in an interactive and entertaining way. Thanks to these games, they learn … Read More

Vegetable life memory game at Rooseboom

The youngsters at the Half Way House in Rooseboom were able to try out the new game launched by the association, which completes the transgardens catalogue for educational games in all the gardens run by Dessine l’Espoir and The Ivory … Read More

Collection of educational games

Dessine l’Espoir has developed a collection of educational games about gardening and the environment. To make them easier to handle, the association has asked the women of Eswatini to make the bags, hand-embroidered with the name of the games and … Read More

Games with the nursery school children at La Traversine

During their visit to the vegetable garden, the children from the Bercy nursery school split into two groups. While one group looked after the garden, the other played board games created by the association around fruit and vegetables.

The Residence Villiot Festival, Paris

On Saturday, September 24th, 2022, we took part in the Festival of the Residence Villiot. We welcomed children and adults of the Residence Villiot in the shared garden of the residence. The children were able to enjoy the board games … Read More

Sign memory for the school for the deaf and hard of hearing in St Paul, Lesotho

Transjardins has developed a memory game associating a card of an element (vegetables, fruits or garden tools) with a card representing its gesture in sign language. Other cards combine the two (elements and signs) in order to facilitate learning for … Read More

Face memory for St Paul’s School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Lesotho

The photographs of the St Paul’s school for the deaf and hard of hearing children carried out last year in the middle of the Leribe vegetation within the framework of the project “Nature en Ville”, were reproduced in a memory … Read More

7-family game at the Grand Potager, Lauris

The children of Lauris nursery school discovered a revisited game of 7 families designed by Transjardins at the Grand Potager of the Domaine de Fontenille. The children were each given a game board corresponding to a fruit/vegetable family colour (orange, … Read More

Aromatic memory with the Lauris preschool at the Grand Potager

On a table installed near the aromatics spiral of the Grand Potager (Domaine de Fontenille), the Lauris preschool children played aromatic memory. In each little pot is an aromatic herb (lemon balm, thyme, rosemary, chives, sage). The children win when … Read More

Pedagogical tools at the Traversine garden

During the Mayor of the 12th arrondissement’s of Paris visit to the Traversine garden, we displayed the pedagogical tools which were conceptualized by Dessine l’Espoir, such as the nutrition games. The children of the Bercy school had the opportunity to … Read More

The Biodiversity Game!

Developed in 2018 by Designing Hope, the Biodiversity Game introduces children to current environmental issues in a playful way. Up till now uniquely developed in its prototype version for the Bercy school, the game is being developed in a small … Read More

Pedagogical dominoes in Lesotho

An educational domino game was designed by Designing Hope in order to introduce the diversity of vegetables to children from an early age. Designed by an artist from Koudougou in Burkina Faso, this game, painted on metal, conquered the deaf … Read More

Pedagogical board games in Laafi

The children of St Paul’s School for Deaf received games designed by Designing Hope and made in France and Burkina Faso. First, they received a game of goose biodiversity that is played with cards and pawns moving on trail printed … Read More

The Transgarden memory game at Saint Paul School

s part of the project Classes Communicantes, a memory game was made by craftsmen in Burkina Faso. This game has been duplicated and sent to the different centers for which Transjardins has developed educational gardens. This memory, on the theme … Read More

A painted Memory game for the preschool at Laafi village

In Burkina Faso, a memory game was made using visuals from the garden. The visuals are painted by Solstène, a Burkinabé artist who is already involved in the awareness campaigns of Designing Hope. 50 visuals have been created in duplicate, … Read More

Creating a Memory game

This afternoon at Roosboom children have created a Memory game on the theme of garden vegetables. This activity allow children to develop their creativity while providing them source of entertainment, and improving their memory and their knowledge of vegetables. EnregistrerEnregistrer