10 Ideas to Get Kids Helping in the Garden
Did you know that getting kids involved in gardening can be a powerful teaching tool for subjects like math, science, and reading? Learning firsthand where their food comes from empowers them with knowledge for making healthy food choices for the rest of their lives. Plus, tending to plants promotes important life skills like kindness, patience and responsibility.
10 Ideas to Get Kids Helping in the Garden
Pinch faded flowers
Water potted plants
Harvest flowers and edibles
Rake leaves
Turn the compost heap
Weed paths and beds
Thin seedlings
Hand pick beetles
Hunt for slugs and snails
Refill birdbaths, bird feeders, and hummingbird feeders.
Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer with bylines in Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Magazine, Marin Magazine and Sunset Magazine. She is also a children's garden and science educator and gives regular talks on various gardening topics to adults at the Mill Valley Public Library. Kier grew up in Mill Valley and has designed and maintained gardens in Marin for over twenty years, focusing on earth-friendly, richly textured, and visually dynamic spaces.
* Taken from The Garden Refresh by Kier Holmes. Used by permission of Timber Press.