The Benefits of Family Gardening for Kids

Gardening is an interesting activity done on Sundays or holidays, and many people make it to be their best “me time” activity idea too. What about you, Moms? If you love gardening, now it’s time for you to stop do that alone. Involving the kids in such activity offers some great benefits. What are they?

Caring for a tiny seed into a plant requires time and effort. This thing is a good point to let the kids learning about patience and responsibility. They will need to wait day by day the plant grows and see the amazing things happen. Seed grows to be small plant with leaves, then flowers, fruits, etc. Sure, raising something beautiful will bring happiness too.

Gardening consists of the activity such as digging, planting the seed and watering.  Those activities are useful for their physical development. Doing such things regularly could help them to strengthen their motor skills.

The obvious benefit which you probably not realize is that gardening is a great way or method of bonding between kids and parents. Family togetherness becomes one of major things they need and the sweet moments such as gardening will always be remembered.

How to make gardening more fun and interesting? This is an important question to answer, since kids are generally very easy to get bored. So parents need to be very creative, including by making the list of things they need to do. Besides teaching them about responsibility, it could make them feel more enthusiastic, especially if you always give appreciation to what they have done.

Before starting gardening, make sure to give them clear instructions about how to water, plant the seed, ideal space between seeds, preparing the required equipment and even the steps to do when harvesting veggies or flowers.

If you and your family want something unique, it’s also ok to have particular garden theme for your kids. If you don’t find interesting ideas, kids will always know what they want, what theme they love the most. Happy gardening!