Gardening Can Be Time Together

Children can spend hours playing in dirt. There are worms to be found, bugs to discover, rocks to collect, and many other discoveries. It is also soothing to spend the time outside playing, exploring and digging. This makes it easy to spend quality time with your little ones.

Start with finding a place for a garden. Allow them time to be right in the middle of the dirt exploring. Go pick out plants to put in the garden together and put them in the dirt together. Having their own gardening tools is a lot of fun for them. Talk about cycles of plants, how they grow, and allow them to use their 5 senses to discover more.

I found a great short article that builds on this activity. http://wpri.com/2016/05/16/gardening-...