Gardening With Children

I love finding ways to include any of our kids art in, or even in this case outside the house. With the weather finally warming up and my garden is screaming for some sprucing up. I thought I'd gather up some super cute garden crafts to help get the kids involved!

Did you know that playing in the dirt can be good for your brain, heart and relationships? This time of year, many of us consider planting a garden so that we can provide healthy foods for our families. What we may not realize is that while we're planting, we're enjoying more than just the promise of tasty vegetables.

National Gardening Association offers the Web's largest and most respected array of gardening content for consumers and educators, ranging from general information and publications to lessons and grants. Explore our Web site and discover a world of gardening possibilities.

With spring still weeks away, here's an easy way to get growing. Kids will love turning ordinary kitchen scraps into a windowsill gardening project. And who knows? It might even inspire them to eat more veggies.

Welcome to another Saturday Science Hop. I am also extremely excited because I am a guest over at The Educator's Spin On It for their Gardening with Kids series. I am sharing 10 Tips for Starting a Preschool Garden. Writing this post was so much fun for me, that I have been having my own little gardening party here, as well.

Despite a long and particularly snow-laden winter for many parts of the country, warm weather is just around the corner. In many places, spring daffodils and crocuses have popped up out of the soil as the ground thaws and the sunshine warms the earth. It is time to start thinking about that vegetable garden.

The guy who wrote this, Brett James, lives in Liverpool so the planting dates are for that region of England. The dates aren't the same but all the other info should transfer. If ya want to know the planting dates for the US, go to http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/ Enter your zip code and find your growing zone.

Choosing the right plants is always important, but it's especially crucial for gardens designed for young children. This list includes annual and perennial plants considered safe. You'll find two main categories - cool season and warm season plants - so you can plan to have something blooming or ready to harvest for most of the gardening year.

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National Gardening Association offers the Web's largest and most respected array of gardening content for consumers and educators, ranging from general information and publications to lessons and grants. Explore our Web site and discover a world of gardening possibilities.

Gardening benefits kids' health and well-being as well as their attitudes towards learning and the environment. It captures their interest, gives them a sense of pride in their accomplishments, and introduces them to healthful foods.

What you can grow in an 8 inch pot...Bell pepper, cabbage, chiles, cucumber, eggplant and more!

We have started planting our seeds for our school garden! This morning we read the book, "One Bean" by Anne Rockwell. The children put two green beans in...

Our Curriculum The Junior Master Gardener curriculum engages children in novel, "hands-on" group and individual learning experiences that promote a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment, and cultivate the mind. The success of our program relies upon the JMG Teachers/Leaders.

Including garden-enhanced nutrition education can help young children experience and eat more fruits and vegetables. The Garden-Enhanced Nutrition Education element of Preschools SHINE includes two criteria:

Family gardening is a fun way for the whole family to get outside and enjoy a hobby together. There are many different types of gardening to choose from. Maybe plant some vegetables to harvest or plant your favorite fragrant flower. No matter what you decide to plant, get out, get dirty and have fun.

Explore Cassie Osborne (3Dinosaurs.com)'s hand-picked collection of Pins about Garden & Flower Activities For Kids on Pinterest. | See more about flower crafts, coffee filter flowers and spring flowers.

I love the sense of awe that gardening with my kids gives them. They just love watching new life spring from a seed (and let's be honest, they also LOVE to get muddy). This is our favorite time of year. It must be many of yours too as we had a bunch of gardening activities ...

Here are 14 book-inspired garden week activities that we've enjoyed! Click on each link for more details about how to do each activity. Plus, I'm including two bonus activities in this post... watering a chalk garden and making plant markers!

This week we are featuring activities you can do "In the garden" as we move into the second week of Virtual Book Club Summer Camp! If you're not yet subscribed to our weekly camp emails, go here to sign up. Today's post is sponsored by Today I Ate a Rainbow.

Not an actual garden but it is very cute.

Our class had the opportunity to take a class fieldtrip to a beautiful greenhouse, compliments of one of our parents, and it was an eye opening experience to see what all is involved in caring for and nurturing such a massive amount of plant life.

With your help, Little Green Fingers will continue to be able to provide healthy, locally grown fruits and vegetables to families with young children through 8 innovative community garden projects and cooking and nutrition programs for low-income "food desert" communities throughout LA County.