Gardening for Children.

Activities for a child in the garden

• Watering the garden.
• Digging.
• Picking flowers.
• Planting vegetables, fruits and flowers in the correct season.
• Feeding the worms and using the ‘worm tea’ from the worm farm as fertiliser.
• Picking vegetables and fruits when they are ready to eat.

• Make a fairy garden or dinosaur garden! Use an old flower pot, seed tray or any plastic tray or box. …
• Shooting water into buckets.
• Painting stones.
• Make mud pies.
• Take your soft toys outside.
• Make a time capsule and bury in the garden. …
• Nature sketching.
• Chalk gallery.
• Bark rubbings.

Easy Plants for Kids to Grow

• Snap Peas. Snap peas are a quick-growing early crop. …
• Sunflowers. These sunny flowers are a must for a child’s garden. …
• Radishes. Radishes are super fast growers. …
• Marigolds. These hardy little flowers can take rough handling and still keep going. …
• Cherry Tomatoes. …
• Pumpkins. …
• Carrots. …
• Potatoes.
• Chives. Chives are a great herb to grow on your kitchen counter! They come up very quickly—it’ll only take 2-3 days for chives to sprout.

5 Super Speedy Vegetables for children to grow.

1. Radishes. Sowing to harvest: 25 days. Radishes are one of the fastest vegetables, taking just three to four weeks to reach harvest time. …
2. Salad leaves. Sowing to harvest: 21 days. …
3. Bush beans. Sowing to harvest: 60 days. …
4. Carrots. Sowing to harvest: 50 days. …
5. Spinach. Sowing to harvest: 30 days.

Things for Toddlers to do……

• Let your child dig and scratch in the garden with small plastic garden tools. …
• Talk to your toddler about earthworms as “garden helpers.” Little ones that like to get dirty will enjoy digging for worms. …
• Let your toddler move small ornaments, such as pinwheels, around the garden.