Gardening with children

Children love it: digging in the soil with their hands, planting seeds and then observing how something grows. Whether in a flower pot or a raised bed - it doesn't take a large garden for children to learn how vegetables and fruit grow and how to protect the insects needed for pollination.

Planting cards:

This allows the children to keep track of their respective planting project: print out a card for each plant and fill it in.

• Which plant will grow here?
• Has it been watered enough? (Overview from Mon-Fri over 4 weeks)
• On what day did the first leaf emerge from the soil?

Finally, a photo of the plant can be stuck on or a picture drawn. Also ideal for portfolio work.

Garden ideas for every season

With the mobile greenhouse from beleduc, you are perfectly equipped for small and large plant projects with your whole kindergarten group! It fits around 28 flower pots and your gardening utensils. The sowing calendar shows you what can be grown, sown and harvested when.

Spring:

Flower pots: Each child names their own flower pot and fills it with soil and seeds.
Sowing: Seeds of sunflowers, cress, parsley, lettuce and radishes are particularly suitable. The film in the greenhouse creates optimum conditions for germination. If you have a garden, you can plant pumpkin seeds. Children can easily pick them up.
Planting: Pre-grown plants, such as strawberries, can be moved into their designed flower pots.

Summer:

Harvest: Many things can be eaten straight from the flower pot. Radishes are ready to harvest just 3-4 weeks after sowing. Chives, lettuce and cress can be harvested regularly.
Tasting: All the senses are stimulated when eating. Chives and radishes are spicy, lettuce is neutral, strawberries are sweet. Can you eat flowers?Some can: daisies, dandelions and chives.

Autumn:

Pumpkin heads: Pumpkins make great lanterns.
Colorful leaves: Jam jars can be decorated with collected and pressed leaves. Add a tea light and you have a beautiful fall decoration.
Sowing: You can now sow vegetables such as lamb's lettuce or winter lettuce. In fact, children can also use the greenhouse in winter. Plant bulb plants such as tulips now so that the children have something to look forward to in spring.

Winter:

Bird food: everything harvested? Empty flower pots can be used to make great bird feeding stations: Thread a piece of string through the hole in the bottom and secure it with a stick. Then mix loose bird food with fat to form a solid mass and fill into the clay pot. Leave to harden and hang on the tree.
Overwintering: Some herbs are hardy, e.g. chives. Simply cut them back and leave them in the pot. They will sprout again next spring.



Photo main image: Kurt Bouda, pixabay