Children's Gardening and Other Links

God's Warrior · Children's Gardening and Other Links

Children's Gardening and Other Links

Kids Valley Garden - A fun place for the little gardener. An easy site to start with. http://www.copper-tree.ca/garden/index.html
website for children's gardening

The Great Plant Escape - The University of Illinois Extension has done a wonderful job in putting this site together. Great Ideas to implement.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html

KinderGarden - This site is very well organized and just the right spot if one wants to start a school garden.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm

The Butterfly Website
http://butterflywebsite.com/
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/

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Children's Gardening

For a children's garden, add a wooden dinosaur sculpture, or a toad house, or even a pot person, created out of clay pots.

Bug catching is fun - but be sure to teach the "catch and release" program.

Children love to work in miniature. Create a terrarium out of a two gallon soda bottle. Mosses, pebbles for walkways, and bark can spark the imagination.

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Tips for Parents: Help Young Gardeners Grow

Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables they choose at the supermarket or farmers' market - or grow themselves.

Developing a child's interest in gardening need not be difficult. Gardening with family or friends offers varying levels of physical activity. Working side-by-side can help people strengthen their relationships with each other and feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments in the garden.

In addition children who learn how fruits and vegetables grow typically develop a better understanding of health-promoting foods, and are likely to choose a greater variety of those foods.

Gardening also can spark an interest in the weather and how it affects growing cycles and the environment.

Make it easy for a child to help - invest in child-sized baskets, buckets or garden tools.

Visit the garden regularly to help children learn about growing cycles. Most children enjoy checking on produce and its progress, particularly when squash grow rapidly.

Rotate responsibilities - children typically have short attention spans.

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Tips for Parents: Help Young Gardeners Grow

Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables they choose at the supermarket or farmers' market - or grow themselves.

Developing a child's interest in gardening need not be difficult. Gardening with family or friends offers varying levels of physical activity. Working side-by-side can help people strengthen their relationships with each other and feel a sense of pride in their accomplishments in the garden.

In addition children who learn how fruits and vegetables grow typically develop a better understanding of health-promoting foods, and are likely to choose a greater variety of those foods.

Gardening also can spark an interest in the weather and how it affects growing cycles and the environment.

Make it easy for a child to help - invest in child-sized baskets, buckets or garden tools.

Visit the garden regularly to help children learn about growing cycles. Most children enjoy checking on produce and its progress, particularly when squash grow rapidly.

Rotate responsibilities - children typically have short attention spans.

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Make it fun. Ask a child to count tomatoes, cucumbers or squash they can find.

Encourage children to look for beneficial insects, such as earthworms that improve the soil, or count butterflies that are naturally attracted to flowers, including zinnias and sunflowers that grow well in Kansas.

Be flexible. Gardening toward evening as temperatures cool can seem like permission to stay up past bedtime. Watering also can be appealing to children.

Some families make a ritual of harvesting fruits and vegetables. Others may want to postpone dessert until after gardening so they can add fresh berries.

Ask a child to help choose mid-summer and fall crops.

Early July is a good time to start a fall crop of green beans. Carrots, broccoli and cauliflower can be started in mid-to-late July. The end of August is a good time to start a fall crop of lettuce or spinach. Children also seem to like growing different colored radishes and turnips, which many have not seen.

Use garden surplus to help children learn about community service. Ask children to help distribute surplus fruits and vegetables to neighbors or help deliver extras to community food pantries. The satisfaction that can come from helping others can be a good lesson for children to learn.

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Children’s Garden

Want your children or grand children to get a start in the garden? It is a great place to spend time together. You are outdoors, away from television and video games, plus you don't have to spend a lot of money to have a lot of fun. Gardening with children can be a learning experience for the whole family. Lowe's is happy to provide this information as a service to you.
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