Gardening with Kids

Creating fun garden with our kids means involving them to all stuff like the evolution and design of the garden and working together to produce something unique. Introducing them to something new like gardening would be a good start for their formative years. Teaching children how to garden from age 5 to 10 will definitely give them the idea and interest about nature. We can let them grow flowers and plants do some little gardening on a pot, mini flower box or we can let them garden with us on flower beds.

Gardening can be a learning experience to children. Everything that they do with some explanation could be a gained knowledge. Introduce them to all the tools and plants that they use for gardening: from shovels to wheelbarrows and from vegetable plants to flowering plants. It would be great to let the kids choose what plants, flowering plants and what container box are they going to use. They can have hanging baskets, window boxes or simply bed gardens. But we need to make sure that they choose the right thing. We can give them several options as not to spoil the garden design.

Children are fond of playing with dirt or mud. It would be of great interest for them if you garden together. We do not need to worry because we are also supervising them while doing the job. Getting dirty for children is a great learning experience and they will surely treasure it until they grow up.

We can also give our children credit for helping us do the gardening. Make them feel that they are part of the gardening activity. We can give them their own flower box garden with their chosen design. If they ask for their favorite cartoon character as their choice, we can either have the box painted or buy a figurine and let it stand beside the mini container box for your kids.

Children will be very happy about involving them in an activity like gardening. They will be pleased learning and at the same time playing. I hope that every parent involve their children for interesting and educating activity like gardening.