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Gardening with Children on the Fridge Door
Our gardens provide one of the most important classrooms for the teaching of life skills to our children in regard to the development of relationships and an appreciation of the environment.
In establishing your child's relationship with the garden make part of the garden their special patch with a sign so they can take ownership of the area.
Make your child's first garden a mixture of surprises and color with a vegetable patch including carrots, some lettuces, a border of pansies and a few daffodils.
Making the sign is a good starting point. Using a small stake, get them to write their own name on a piece of cardboard, and decorate the sign by sticking the seed packet on the sign.
Encourage them to also draw on the sign and make it colorful.
Before fixing the sign to the stake carefully cover the cardboard with plastic to make the sign waterproof. This can be done with some plastic food wrap.
Establish a fridge door activity sheet to talk about the progress of the garden. Keep a record of the growth and add new comments or drawings.
By going to www.greenweb.com.au and Green Web Gardening you can print out one of the fridge door activity sheets to start off the project. Once one sheet is full get another one as we will update the Green Web Gardening activity sheets.
Encourage your child to draw a picture of their new garden. Include a list of the plants in the garden and record when they are planted, when the seedlings poke through the earth and when the flowers bloom.
The fridge door activity sheet is one way of discussing the garden daily with your children and allowing them to extend their creativity from the garden to drawing and writing.
Green Web Gardening has a section Kids in the Garden where children can add a report on their garden to the world wide web and share information with other junior gardeners from other countries.
Make this a special event and email their form for posting on Green Web Gardening Kids in the Garden.
The site is easy to access and provides children with the opportunity to see what other children are doing in their gardens at home. www.greenweb.com.au
…. "The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world…….. Charles Dudley Warner
Source www. spirit of gardening.com
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