Container Gardening

Getting children involved in gardening can be a tough task to tackle. The most important thing to remember is to keep gardening fun and exciting and fun for children. Hopefully my tips can help you get your children gardening.

Getting the entire family in the garden can be very rewarding. You get to spend quality time with your family, you accomplish work in the garden, and you improve your health by receiving fresh air and exercise. Younger children look up to Mum and Dad as their role models. Let your children help you work in the garden. Tell your children they are doing a good job in the garden and it will make them want to keep helping.

Another tip to getting children gardening is to turn gardening into a game or contest. A contest idea might be to see who can pick the most beans, or who can pull the most weeds. We are born with a competitive spirit so this technique should work. You could create a scarecrow making contest so everybody can make their own scarecrow. Make sure you compliment each child on all their work.

Offer rewards or treats to your children for helping in the garden. However you shouldn’t bribe your children with rewards or treats. Ask your children to help with the garden. After the work is done you can offer the reward. This will train your children to know they will be rewarded for doing hard work.

When it comes time to harvest your crops, use a cookbook designed for children to make snacks and meals. This will help children harvest and also get your children involved in cooking. You can find a children’s cookbook at the library or on the internet. Recipes can also be found on cooking websites.

Along with cooking with the produce, you can use the produce for crafts. One fun family activity is to carve pumpkins in the autumn. Potatoes can be used for making stamps. All you need to do is carve a design in a potato and dip it into paint. You can then stamp paper to create wrapping paper or whatever you wish.

One last idea is to let your children have a garden to call their own. What you need to do is dig up a small area and let your children take over from there. You can let your children decide what to plant in their garden. There are seed packets intended for children that would be great to purchase. They can even start the plants indoors to watch them grow day by day.

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