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Get Your Kids Thumbs Greener : As we are preparing our gardens for spring and summer, Now is a good time to get your kids interested in gardening , taking advantage of gardening moments with your kids every week in your own yard without competing with the TV and other activities they are involved in is important, this is your time with them.
Here are some helpful tips:
* Since kids are into instant gratification start with a flat of annual flowers. The reward in immediate.
* Choose
unusual plants such as : pink potatoes, orange cauliflower, find edible flowers and herbs, such as basil, fragrant plants as lemon basil and orange thyme. to engage all the senses.
* Kids, even older ones, like hiding places, so grow them one in the garden. here are two ideas: Plant tall-growing Sun Flower seeds in a circle, leaving space for a "door" that kids can crawl through once the flowers have grown
10 feet high. or build a simple tepee out of fallen tree branches or gardening stakes and plant bean seeds around the outside.
beans grow fast, and and very soon the children will have a secret hiding
* A birdbath or a small shallow pond will bring critters like frogs to enter the garden, which will in turn draw your children out there too.
* If tools attract them let them dig holes for the stakes.
* The kids will notice the changes in the garden, encourage and help them track them on a calender, in a
journal or with photographs. Pay attention to the birds and insects in the garden too.
* Build a scarecrow together, build a birdhouse, make personalized stepping stones to mark the pathways in the garden.
* Plan a garden that is based on a child's favorite story book, like The Very Hungry Caterpillar or The tale Of
Peter The Rabbit.
You can find more information on how to engage your kids in gardening at: www.kidagardening.org
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