Do you want your child to be interested in gardening at a young age? Would you like to spend more quality time with him or her? Would you like your children to help you out in the garden, while also enjoying themselves out in nature? If you’ve answered yes to at least one of these questions, then you will be happy with the topic of today’s article. Today, we want to provide you with a guide on the basics of gardening for kids. Read on to find out how to engage your children and get them passionate about gardening.
Basic Gardening for Kids
The first thing you should teach your children when it comes to gardening are the basic skills. These are: planting, watering, raking, and harvesting. For instance, one of the first activities of gardening for kids can be to teach them how to plant seeds. Give them the necessary instructions and allow them to be the ones who dig the holes and put the seeds in.
Next comes watering. The easiest and safest way to teach your child how to water the seeds and plants is to use a water wand. Show them how it is done and then watch them practice. We advise you not to use a watering can until the children perfect this task and until the actual plants start to develop.
Raking can also be a fun activity of gardening for kids. You can be creative and challenge them to a raking race – whoever finishes their patch first wins. Or try to keep them interested by asking them to collect any types of stones they find while raking.
The last step in the basic gardening skills you could teach your child is to harvest the plants they planted themselves. You can provide them with a pair of scissors made especially for kids. However, we suggest you supervise them constantly when it comes to this task. Allow them to pick vegetables and fruits, then wash them until they are ready to be eaten.
Make Plant Markers
Apart from the more basic gardening skills, you can make gardening for kids extremely interesting and creative with some extra activities. For instance, you can ask your child to help you with making some plant markers. When you have just started planting a lot of different types of vegetables and fruits in your garden, it can be tricky to remember which is which. That is why you will need some plant markers. And there’s no reason why your own child can’t make them.
Just get some cardboard, colorful markers, and some pop sticks. Then, help your child cut different shapes and write the name of the plants on them. Next comes decorating them as creatively as possible. Don’t forget to fully laminate them at the end, this way they won’t get damaged. Then, just stick them in your soil and you got yourself a really organized and colorful garden.
We hope our gardening for kids guide has inspired you to ask your child for help the next time you want to tend to the garden. These are only a few of the tasks you can give your children, the important thing is to get creative.
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