How to Get Kids Into Gardening

Although kids love playing with dirt, they don’t see gardening as a fun activity. Kids enjoy engaging in action-packed and captivating activities. But you can make gardening engrossing. Kids learn important lessons when they participate in gardening activities.

They learn about patience, responsibility, building relationships, preserving the environment, and eating healthy. Gardening also keeps them connected to nature. So, how can we get kids to love gardening?

You will need to turn up the fun element while gardening. It will make your kids enjoy the activities. Stick on to the article. I’ll talk about how to turn gardening into a fun activity.

Carve Out a Piece for the Kids

You’ll have to teach the kids basic lessons about gardening. Let it be a hands-on activity. A fantastic way to get hands-on is by sectioning part of the gardening for your kids. It will allow them to learn and garden alongside you. Get them their gardening tools and let them explore different gardening ideas on the little plot allocated to them.

Let them choose what they wish to grow in their little section. Your child learns lots of things when they have the space to explore and try new activities. Teach them how to grow these plants and let the picking and planting be child-led. Don’t take over the planting. It will encourage independence and cultivate responsibility among the kids.

If you don’t have enough space in your yard, you can take the gardening indoors. Section off your garden from the kids’ garden using dividers or indoor grow tents. The second one will allow you to teach the kids more about controlling lighting conditions, water, humidity, and temperature levels for the plants.

Quirky Planters

Let the garden be an arts and crafts lesson for your kids. Turn plastic bottles into quirky and adorable planters. You can paint and turn the bottles into animated creatures. Let your kids paint the eggshells and use them to germinate seeds. You can let them create mini gardens using eggshells. Additionally, consider privacy planters for your railings, providing both greenery and seclusion to your outdoor space. Moreover, eggshells contain calcium and nitrogen. The seedling will love them.

Also, you can let them create colorful garden markers. The markers will be a gorgeous addition to the garden. It’s fun and brightens the garden.

Sensory Stimulation

Let your kids touch the soil, plants, and worms. Allow them to learn about insects. You can let them dig and plant using tools and bare hands. It’s a safe way to let them amuse themselves in the dirt away from your white walls and furniture.

Let them clean the garden, pull weeds, and help you harvest.

Create a Fairy Mini Garden

Ask them to design a fairy garden. It’s an amazing way to expand their imagination and creativity. It will upskill them on how to turn simple things like rocks or sticks into something magical. Let them be in charge of their mini gardens. Don’t be worried about the dirt. Let them feel the different textures and enjoy getting messy. Don’t be surprised to see them covered in mud from head to toe. Messiness is part of crafting a beautiful fairy garden.

Artsy Self-Watering Planters

You kids can also learn how to make self-watering plants. It’s fun and educational. Teach them about recycling and how recycling preserves the environment. You’ll need plastic bottles with caps and strings. Paint the bottles. Cut them in half, drill holes on the caps, tie knots, and pull the strings through the holes.

Tighten the caps and upturn the top half of the bottle. Fill the top half with soil and plant seeds or seedlings. Add water to the other half and insert the inverted top half. Let the strings touch the water. And there you have it, a self-watering planter.

Composting

Let your kids actively engage in the actual composting process. They can watch how food waste turns into nutritious food for the plants. Get them transparent jars to make their compost. Let them label their containers and set them in a place that receives sunlight. Let them top up their compost jar every two weeks. Within 2 to 3 months, the compost will transform nutritious food for their plants.

Last Thoughts

It’s easy to make gardening an enjoyable activity for your kids. Gardening gets your children away from video games, technology, and screens and connects them with nature. Studies have established that kids who play and connect more with nature perform better academically. Moreover, they learn about the environment, insects, and plants. They learn about plants, their life cycle, and how to tend their gardens. They also learn about food and eating healthy.

Gardening is just one of many activities that introduce children to something new to do.  Ultimately, these endeavours help determine what they may become interested in for life.  Here are a few other projects that help kids bond with parents while learning a new skill.

Author:  Marigona Ismajli