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Gardening With Kids and the Flowers We Plant

best flowers to grow for your kids in your garden

Explore the best flowers to use for kids to experience in your garden. These flowers provide opportunities for picking, inviting wildlife, seed collecting and more. Our family really enjoys vegetable gardening. We started adding vegetable gardens and fruit trees and bushes. Next came the flowers. In fact, these are our top 10 favorite flowers to grow with kids. The Reason to Grow Flowers for Kids in Your Garden The rule in our house is that if you ask first, then you can pick ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Amanda, Flowers, grade school, Kids in the Garden, Preschool, toddlers

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LEGO Garden Preschool Math

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Work on number recognition and number sense with this fun hands-on LEGO Garden Preschool Math Game with LEGO Flowers! Beginning reading and math skills are a big part of our daily playful preschool activities. In fact, we often start by playing and end up learning and discussing. LEGO Garden Preschool Math with Flowers Disclosure: This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Just this morning we brought the giant bucket of LEGO bricks outside and dumped them out on the ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities, Math Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Flowers, LEGO, math, numbers, Playful Preschool, Preschool, Spring, Toddler

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Super Sensory Invitations to Play | Calming Lavender Playdough

Lavender Playdough

Senses matter. They open up a whole world of possibilities for play and learning. This super sensory invitation to play with calming lavender play dough was a hit with all the of my kids, ages 3, 5, and 9. I remember reading in college about a research project where children were given different flavored jolly ranchers while doing homework and practicing for upcoming subject area tests. The children who had a consistent flavor candy during spelling practice were then given the same ... Read more...

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, Fine Motor Skills, Flowers, Herbs, PLAY, playdough, Preschool, Senses, Sensory, Toddler

By Kim Vij

Painted Flower Craft for Kids – A Book Activity Inspired by The Tiny Seed

DIY Painted Flower Craft for Kids Using Recycled Plastic

Create this easy and colorful painted flower craft for kids using a few recycled items around your home to create a keepsake hanging flower for someone special. This book activity was inspired by the popular Eric Carle book The Tiny Seed. Here's how to make your own Hanging Painted Flower Craft  This post contains affiliate links to Amazon where we get a small commission when you make a purchase.  All opinions expressed are my own.  This week's featured book ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Gardening Tagged With: Art projects, Book Activity, Eco Living, Flowers, gardening, grade school, Preschool, the tiny seed, Virtual Book Club for Kids

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Creating an Edible Sensory Garden for Children with Herbs

Creating an Edible Sensory Garden for Children with Herbs

Simple tips for how to create an edible sensory garden for kids. Tips for how to gather a variety of herbs with different colors, textures, smells, and tastes for your child to experience. Let's make an edible sensory garden! It is finally that time of year when we can spend more time outdoors due to the cooler weather. This means that is it a perfect time for gardening. Edible Sensory Garden for Kids This year, I am working on creating a sensory garden for our family. What ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Amanda, Eco Living, gardening, Herbs, Kids in the Garden, Literacy, Science Fun, Senses

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Art in the Garden: Herb Painting Activity

Painting with Herbs

Explore art in the garden with this herb painting with kids craft idea, a simple but creative garden themed preschool activity. With just paint and herbs your child will create colorful art and a love of herbs in the garden. It's the perfect garden art project for kids to add to our  Kids in the Garden Series. I’m am beyond thrilled to share today on the Educators Spin On It, and to be included in this fabulous “Kids in the Garden” series. ~Melissa of Mama ... Read more...

Filed Under: Arts, Gardening Tagged With: Art projects, Creative Crafting, Herbs, Kids in the Garden, learning garden, Plant a Seed

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The Best Herbs to Grow with Children

Learn how to grow herbs in the garden with kids

Gardening with kids can be a learning AND sensory experience. Children learn best with they activate their sense of sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste. Adding an herb garden can be the easiest way to start gardening with your kids. I am excited to introduce you to Victoria a talented mom with education schooling and experience in organizing local mom groups. She shares her parenting journey and kid activities at Squiggles and Bubbles. The Best Herbs to Grow with ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Herbs, Kids in the Garden, Plant a Seed

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Tips for Starting a School Garden

Creating a school garden with Preschoolers with 10 Easy Steps. Read how to set up your preschool garden for opportunities for learning outdoors with kids. Gardens are a great way to integrate social and academic learning into practical life, and everyday activity. There is so much potential in a garden classroom. Affiliate Links included in this post. Guest Post: Dayna is here as a guest writer to showcase some of these school garden learning activities and advice for starting up ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Activities for Preschoolers, grade school, Kids in the Garden, Plant a Seed, Preschool

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Growing Kale in your Garden with Kids

Growing Kale with Kids! Tips and Recipes for Growing Kale in your garden.

Follow these simple tips for growing kale in your garden with kids! Gardening is a great way to teach kids about life cycles, the natural world, nutrition, vocabulary and mathematics. It is work (don't let anyone convince you otherwise) but a work that we feel is beneficial to all members of our family and so we make time to garden. Growing Kale with Kids I am often asked about WHAT to grow in your garden. The easiest and most general answer is KALE. Why? Well... ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Amanda, gardening, grade school, Kids in the Garden, Preschool

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Growing Peas with Kids in the Garden

Learning How to Grow Peas with Kids in your Garden

Discover how easy it is to grow Peas with kids in your garden. Plus use our garden journal to expand your child's learning in the garden. Our household loves gardening. I am often asked what is our favorite vegetable to grow. Without a doubt, I would say, snow peas. Growing Peas with Kids Snow peas are one of my favorite plants to grow in both our home and school garden.  Mostly because they are so easy to grow.  Peas prefer cooler weather and can be ... Read more...

Filed Under: Gardening, Science Tagged With: Garden Packets, gardening, grade school, Kids in the Garden, Literacy Connections, Outdoor Fun, peas, Preschool

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