Make Gardening a Family Event
Show them how much you enjoy gardening. Spend time in your garden. It is especially easy to stimulate a child’s interests when they see you having fun.
Make gardening easy. Don’t expect a perfect garden. Allow your family to work at their own pace and within their attention spans and age range, especially children.
Dig it! Kids love to dig. This is a great way to teach the basics while letting them play and just have fun.
<p>Let them play an active role in planning. Take your children to the local nursery and let them pick seeds or transplants to start their garden. Take your time and let them browse and enjoy all of the beautiful plants.
Grow a theme garden. This is a great way to let your children use their imagination and express their creativity. The sky is the limit. Some great ideas are gardens that coincide with the holidays, alphabet gardens, a garden themed in their favorite colors, a sensory garden where you can experience different smells, tastes, textures and sights, or a “Freedom Garden”.
Give children their own “kid sized” tools. They don’t have to be expensive. You can go with an old spoon and a bucket that you have around the house or you can venture down to the garden center and purchase garden tools made for children’s hands.
Give them a space to call their own. It doesn’t have to be big. This will teach them ownership and responsibility, and your children will be able to take credit for their own little space.
Get crafty! Press or dry flowers to make a beautiful arrangement, make potpourri, or make a pomander ball. Children love making things and will be amazed at the crafts and gifts that they can make from the garden.
Grow a vegetable garden. Your children will be amazed that they can grow their own food. Be sure to use organic pesticides.
Use gardening to brush up your children’s math and science skills. Let them count the seeds they are planting, or teach them how plants are living things. Not only will you capture their attention, you will be polishing their skills as you go.
Have a contest. Kids love to be rewarded. Be sure to give each child a reward; the biggest tomato, the prettiest flower, or perhaps the best tasting herbs (a little Spray-N-Grow will help!)
Don’t try to do it all! Pick a few of these tips that you know are best for your family and have fun with them. After all, gardening is meant to be fun and easy. And with a little help, something the whole family can enjoy.
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June 9th, 2009 at 12:20 am
yeah, if you put too much dihydrogen monoxide on your plants they die……..
June 9th, 2009 at 2:01 am
yeah but you need like a thousand of those “citrus” bottles to treat all your wood!
June 9th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Definitely sports!
June 9th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Stick with a German theme, serve German food,and decorations. German beer gardens are also big on giant pretzels so how about a pretzel bar? Stock it with various cheeses and mustards and chocolate. Build a Berlin wall out of boxes and have the guests come up with inventive ways to knock it down. The winner can be crowned Ambassador of the party.
June 9th, 2009 at 11:34 am
WTF?
June 10th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Yes i have many rare informations. I dont disclose so it is still very rare
June 10th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
We did not invite children to our wedding and we also did not have children as part of the wedding ceremony.
I'm not offended when the children are not invited it allows me time to actually enjoy the wedding ceremony and reception without keeping track of my children. We are going to a wedding this weekend and my oldest 2 children (ages 10 and 14) were invited but not the youngest 2 (ages 7 and 4) and I felt slightly offended at first that the oldest were OK but not the youngest until I really thought about the reasoning behind it. So we are going with the oldest 2 and will have a great time I'm sure.
Also my cousin got married a few years ago and didn't invite children but she also paid for a couple of babysitters to stay at her moms house for family members children…just a thought
Good luck and congrats!
June 11th, 2009 at 8:53 am
CHEMICALS=POISON!
June 11th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
LOL “Oh hi!” LOL Cute
June 11th, 2009 at 10:00 am
It sounds like there are enough people there that the two dudes who don't like each other won't need to hang out together – they can converse with other people.
You don't say what the reason for the dispute is – too nosey to ask? Whatever triggered it – so long as that trigger-point is not present at the garden I think you'll be ok.
Cool and distant is a lot better than loud and argumentative.
June 12th, 2009 at 1:58 am
Highlands, U Hills, Bible Park, Park Hill, Stapleton, and "Wash" Park areas are those areas that come to mind.
Centennial and some parts of Littleton wll probably appeal to you as well.
June 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I liked the video and it has given me ideas, thank you
June 12th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Okay that dude looks kind of like that guy from trainspotting going for a job interview haha crack head
June 12th, 2009 at 4:58 am
That must have taken alot of time to write! (unless you just found the list somewhere on the internet)
Good ways to make money, i think maybe il try some.
June 12th, 2009 at 5:36 am
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." -Sinclair Lewis