Green Options » gardening with children http://greenoptions.com/tag/gardening-with-children Posts tagged 'gardening with children' Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:34:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Three Simple and Fun Ways to Garden with Children http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/03/three-simple-and-fun-ways-to-garden-with-children/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/03/three-simple-and-fun-ways-to-garden-with-children/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:34:02 +0000 Lucille Chi http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/03/three-simple-and-fun-ways-to-garden-with-children/
1. Begin by downloading this Center for Ecoliteracy free visual guide which promotes nature as our teacher.  The guide teaches that sustainable living is rooted in a deep knowledge of our natural world and that it is a community practice which can start with the family in the backyard. Feel free to share these lessons in natural systems with your child’s teachers too.

2.  If your child is still to young for reading, make gardening a part of playtime. Think of gardening like playing with toys, make a dollhouse garden, or a mini field for action figurines. The wee garden kit comes with a variety of little goodies to make your own enchanted miniature garden:

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/03/03/three-simple-and-fun-ways-to-garden-with-children/feed/ Gardening with Kids Promotes Environmentalism: 6 Benefits of Fall Cover Crops http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/06/gardening-with-kids-promotes-environmentalism-6-benefits-of-fall-cover-crops/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/06/gardening-with-kids-promotes-environmentalism-6-benefits-of-fall-cover-crops/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:56:01 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/10/06/gardening-with-kids-promotes-environmentalism-6-benefits-of-fall-cover-crops/ crimson clover fall cover cropA new study by O.M. Aguilar, a graduate assistant in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at Texas A&M University, confirms what previous studies and parents know:  Gardening with children makes them more sensitive to environmental issues. As reported in LOHAS, the study found:

Test results indicated that children that had any type of experience with gardening had more positive attitudes toward the environment when compared with students that had not gardened. The study showed that hands-on gardening activities are important to the development of environmentally concerned citizens, and that children’s involvement in informal gardening experiences has as much impact on their environmental outlook as involvement in formal school-based programs.

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