{"id":907,"date":"2015-04-19T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/19\/how-to-get-kids-excited-about-gardening-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:29","slug":"how-to-get-kids-excited-about-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/how-to-get-kids-excited-about-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities to get Kids excited about Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"
Before having kids gardening wasn\u2019t even on my radar. Despite growing up on a vegetable farm, it certainly didn\u2019t leave me with any green fingers. I struggled to keep a house plant alive when I left home! But having kids tends to change your perspective on many things and gardening has been one of them. Before kids I wouldn\u2019t have spent much time in the garden at all, expect for the odd BBQ or to pull the very biggest weeds out! But now I like to get my kids active outside in the fresh air as much as possible, it is becoming more important to have something nice to look at whilst we are out playing.<\/div>\n

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\nActivities to get Kids excited about Gardening<\/h2>\n
\nMake miniature gardens<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 we spent a lovely afternoon collecting flower heads along with sticks and stones to go into my children\u2019s individual miniature flower gardens.<\/div>\n
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\nPlant Sunflowers<\/strong> \u2013 we had excellent fun last year with our \u201cSunflower Growing Competition\u201d and we will be repeating this again this year. We have already planted out our seeds indoors and they are growing really well so far. In the next few weeks we\u2019ll be planting them out into the garden and the kids will be assigned to an area each to look after and we\u2019ll see who can grow the biggest flower this year! We had some peeping over the fence last year.<\/div>\n
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\nGrow Cress Heads<\/strong> \u2013 Every child should grow a cress head at least once. My eldest son has been planting seeds out in school,so Freddie and Bella wanted to have a go at home as well. We re-used some yoghurt pots for our planters and added on some googly eyes and funny faces with a marker to turn them into \u201cCress Monsters\u201d. They are ideal for young kids to start off with, as they grow so fast germinating within a couple of days of planting them. I\u2019m hoping to get them to try some in their school lunch sandwiches this week.<\/div>\n

\"Growing
\nGrowing to love Gardening<\/h2>\n
I am still very much a beginner in the garden, but I am eager to learn. I started slowly last year planting out a few bulbs and bedding plants and we are reaping the benefits of these now spring is here. Yes, the daffodils have taken a bit of bashing from the kids bikes and balls, but most of them have survived!<\/div>\n
\nWe also built a couple of raised vegetable beds in our back garden last year and the kids took great delight in helping Daddy shovel the soil in (there was a lot!). They then went along to help choose which seeds to buy and helped sow them in the ground. They were then given responsibility in helping with the watering duties and being on the lookout for any new shoots growing. There was great excitement when each new crop popped their heads above ground. We even managed to get them to try most of the produce we grew as well, which was a big motivating factor in getting them involved in the first place.<\/div>\n

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\nDeveloping our Garden<\/h2>\n
\nWe are hoping to up our game with the vegetable beds this year and try and grow a few more things. We have already set our potatoes and sown some radish seeds into the vegetable beds. I have also grown some cucumber, pepper, tomato and courgette plants from seed inside which we will be planting out once the last chance of a frost has been and gone. We then have carrot and pea seeds ready to go straight into the beds as well over the coming weeks.<\/div>\n
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25+ Dr Seuss Activities for Kids<\/a><\/h3>\n
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