Gardening is a hobby that not only brings you closer to nature but also brings peace and positivity. Being surrounded by plants and taking care of them make you responsible and fill you up with energy. For children, it can be an amazing activity to indulge in. It will help them grow, make them understand the importance of nature, and will inculcate the love for nature in them. It can also help in their overall development.
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Here are a few tips to help your child get started with gardening-
- Try naming your plants so that children can relate to them and feel as if the plants are their friends. It can work particularly well with young children and will keep them interested.
- Give the kids their piece of garden, a small area, where they can do whatever they want. Their own space will make them responsible and they will be interested in indulging in more gardening activities.
- Find any easy to maintain and fast-growing plant for them to grow because children like to see the result of their efforts quickly. You can let them plant herbs such as mint, rosemary, or thyme and some tomatoes, reddish, carrot, and watermelon.
- Give them their set of tools to make gardening interesting for children and encourage them. Like wood trug, kneeler, toolset, garden apron, gardening gloves, and some different kinds of seeds.
- You can even decorate the garden area with cartoons and some amazing colorful pots with DIY things.