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Add Creativity and Fun to Gardening With Kids

May 13, 2020 by MamaBee

Getting children to have an interest in gardening or growing plants can be pretty difficult, especially when they’re younger, and you have to wait a long time for substantial growth in your plant projects.

However, there are plenty of ways you can make this activity more fun and interesting for children. It’s actually really easy to make gardening more creative or interactive to keep your kids’ interests. Here are some great ways to make gardening more creative and fun for kids.

Add Creativity and Fun to Gardening With Kids

Decorate The Pots

If your children are creative or artistic, get some paint or markers out when you’re preparing the pots! You can let them decorate their own plant pots using paint, markers, or any other fun craft supplies. This can let them have custom places for their plants and have fun making cool designs.

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Let Them Choose

When you allow them to have involvement in the project idea and planning, children will have a lot more interest and be invested in it more. Let them choose what plants to grow, or where to put the garden spot or plant pots (within reason), or the color plant pots you purchase. It can be really simple and instantly make a difference.

Keep Plant Journals

If your kid is old enough to write or if you want to have them tell you what to write, keep a plant journal! You can use this to keep track of progress of your plants, what types are planted, what care they need, write when you water or care for them, or any other tracking really. It can also be great if this is being used for homeschooling.

Use Plant Markers

Plant markers are incredibly useful in gardening and also can be a great way to have some fun. You can decorate your own, or use cute sticker ones made by Mabel’s Labels. The Mabel’s Labels plant markers are weatherproof, fun, adorable, and you can Save 20% off on Split Name Label Packs at Mabel’s Labels!

Have you ever tried or considered some of these options? Hopefully, at least some of these gave you some ideas to try when starting up a gardening activity with your kids, and help attract and keep their interest.

It’s a really beneficial and fun thing to grow plants with your child’s help, and it can be useful for homeschooling too! Plus, if you grow food or useful plants they can go to use after growing. I hope this gives you some help in gardening projects or inspires you to start one with your family.

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