Enjoy your Garden This Summer | Kids Edit

If you have children, grand-children or nieces + nephews your garden becomes less of a relaxing haven. Here are some ideas to keep the kids entertained over the holidays to avoid your natural paradise being taken over.

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Get Them Growing

Do you have fussy eater in your household? If so, get them involved with the growing of fresh fruit and vegetables.

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Raised Planters | Vegetable Troughs

Children love feeling like little gardeners, so set up some raised planters or vegetable troughs. Teach them how to care for crops and enjoy home-grown produce.

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Seeds & Bulbs | Find their favourite Flowers

Children love getting their hands dirty, so give them some seeds and bulbs to plant in your garden! Show them how to plant seeds and watch them grow together.

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Sensory Garden Ideas For Kids

From physical activity to mental health, sensory gardens have a long list of benefits for everyone, but they can be especially helpful for children such as :

1. 1. Improve emotional regulation linked with mindfulness,
2. 2. Enhance a sense of play and creativity
3. 3. Encourage curiosity about nature

Create a sensory area in your garden by adding :

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Activity | Garden Scrapbooking

1. Ask your child to draw a picture of themselves in the garden, write the date and their address underneath it and stick it on the first page of their scrapbook.
2. They can collect leaves and plants from the garden and put them in their scrapbook. They can press samples if they wish, but this takes longer – up to six weeks under heavy weights. They can draw pictures of different parts of the garden.
3. Start window watching with the idea to draw or write the names of the birds they see coming into the garden over the different seasons.
4. Stick in the seed packets of any seeds they grow. Give them old seed catalogues to cut out pictures of plants they want to grow – or they may like to design their dream flowerbed!

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