Gardening with Preschoolers - Growing Vegetables with Your Preschooler
Gardening with preschoolers can be a pain… or a fun time for everyone!
Here are some tips to enjoying gardening with your preschooler this year.
- Give them their own garden plot, so you don’t need to worry about them mistaking your prize winning tomato plant for a giant weed!
- Let them grow things they like to eat - peas and carrots are good choices.
- Buy preschool-sized plastic gardening tools.
- Put on sunscreen and a hat before you work in the garden.
- Help them make labels for each row they plant, so they’ll remember what they planted. This is also a good way to help them learn to read.
- Decorate the garden! Help your preschooler collect and paint rocks to sit among the rows and keep your preschooler company
- Plant a pizza garden! Tomatoes, onions, green peppers, basil, oregano, etc.
Tomorrow I’ll tell you about my favorite flowers to plant with preschoolers.
