Learning Activities For Children » Gardening http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com Learning Activities for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school aged children. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A Garden For Toddlers http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/a-garden-for-toddlers/ http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/a-garden-for-toddlers/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 13:44:01 +0000 Melissa http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/?p=146 If you have young children who want to dig in your garden or pull out the vegetables (before they are ready to be harvested) consider giving them their own garden.

For children too young to understand how to take care of a garden, have plastic fruits and veggies in a sandbox or in a designated area of your yard. Provide your children with child sized spades a rakes for their garden. This will provide you with a wonderful opportunity to help teach your child the names of the fruits and vegetables, colors, shapes and sizes (larger, smaller). Your child will also use his find motor skills as he digs and pulls out vegetables. Try a baggie garden with your child to teach that vegetables start out as seeds.

]]> http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/a-garden-for-toddlers/feed/ 0 Baggie Garden Results http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/baggie-garden-results/ http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/baggie-garden-results/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 17:52:01 +0000 Melissa http://learningactivitiesforchildren.com/?p=140 If you haven’t already made a baggie garden with your kids, what is stopping you? Chances are you already have all the materials and the beans grow so quickly that young children will remember participating in the activity as they watch their beans grow.

Here is a picture of one of my daughters baggie garden just one week after putting the garden together.

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The girls just love to pull up their blinds each day and talk about their beans growing. I used navy beans but you can use any dried bean you have in your pantry.

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