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Seven Tips For Getting Your Kids To Enjoy Home Gardening

One way to jumpstart your children's environmental education could be through gardening. Teach them to respect life while you bond with them.

1. Give your child their own garden plot
Give your child their own garden plot. Allow them to get pleasure from it and take dignity in their own piece of territory. You can put your child's name on a sign, so everyone can see that it's their garden. Allow them to pick whichever plant they want to grow. Help your little ones become enthusiastic about home gardening. If they make a mess, let it be. Just be there to help them.  

2. Make sure that the garden is somewhere visible for the kids.
Make sure you pick a spot where the kids often play or walk. Every time they pass by or see their garden, the more they will notice changes.

3. Choose the right plants
Kids will most likely choose plants and flowers with bright colors, so have a lot of varieties of plants. Examples of bright flowers are zinnias and cosmos. They will keep your children fascinated. Don't forget sunflowers. Make sure these plants will not cause any allergic reactions.
 

4. Planting seeds
Give your children the freedom to help you with planting seeds. Some seeds might be too small for tiny fingers, but they can be of help in covering them with dirt. A picture of each plant will enable the children to see what the flowers will look like.

5. Playing with Dirt
Children are generally fond of playing with dirt or mud. They can help you ready the soil, even if what they are only doing is breaking up the clumps. To make home gardening more fun, you can provide them with kid-sized tools.

6. Playing with water
Playing with water is right up there with playing with dirt. Look for a small watering can that they can use to water their garden. You can show them how to let the water go right to the roots of the plants.

7. Home Gardening Memories
To extend your children’s enthusiasm until the plants have grown; help them create a home gardening journal. They can write down when they placed the seeds in the ground and when they first saw a sprout pushing up through the earth. They can draw pictures of plants or insects or of memorable events. They will have a complete record of their activities.
 

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