5 SUPER FUN GARDENING ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN Gardening is fun, rewarding and it creates a sense of accomplishment in the children. The children will feel accomplished when the plants grow to maturity under their care. Furthermore, being involved in gardening activities enables the children to learn about nature, recycling and also it instills a sense of responsibility in them. So instead of just swimming and lazing around in summer and spring, encourage your little ones to take up gardening and see their hard work payoff. This article will highlight five super fun gardening activities for the children. Have potato farm You can encourage the children to plant potatoes in their small garden or even in containers. A good salad or a meal is not …show more content…
All you need to get started is a sunny spot, seeds, pots, and soil. In order to enrich the soil, you can use organic materials like compost, shredded leaves, and even animal manure. You can grow greens such as lettuce, kale, mustard and even spinach, which are great for salad. Growing greens not only provides fresh nutritious vegetables but also can be educative venture as the children learn more about the different types of vegetables and their nutritional value. The upside of these is finally your children will get to eat vegetables well without a fight, as they had grown …show more content…
You can capitalize in this by helping them build a maze using sunflower plant. Sunflower is beautiful and is tall enough for this fun activity, but you can also use corn plant or wildflower. Sunflowers have cheerful blooms and they come in different sizes. They also come in a varied range of colors like white, yellow, orange and even red. You can engage your children in designing the maze, selecting the maze location and in planting the sunflower. The plant needs plenty of sunlight to thrive, so make sure you select a sunny spot. Sunflower seeds are a birds’ favorite and its kernels are used to make oil. Create a worm farm Most children love to play with worms and getting their hands dirty; therefore, they will be thrilled to have their own worm farm. Worms create tunnels through the earth and this helps the plants to get access to water and nutrients. Furthermore, these slimy creatures convert wastes into compost, hence enriching the soil. Therefore, having them around is not a bad idea at all. Having a worm farm will create an avenue for the children to learn more about them and also can help convert your kitchen waste into compost manure for your vegetable garden. These are just but few gardening activities for the children. Ignite that idea in them, let them learn to grow their own food and have fun while on
Flanagan starts by describing how important it is for students to learn as much as they can in a classroom because gardening is actually "robbing an increasing number of American schoolchildren of hours they might
The victory garden or home garden was something that was highly popular during World War I and II. People would grow their own produce to help with the local food supply and to ease pressure on the local economy. At that time, almost one third of vegetable that were produced in the United States came from people’s home gardening (Wikipedia.org). Since then, there has been a massive decrease in the home garden. Store bought produce had become common place and as a result people have stopped growing their own food. However, by encouraging home gardening, communities can have sustainable, more nutritious produce readily available.
It was decided, then, that planting a garden would be my summer project. My mother and I planned for it to be located behind our garage, in a sunny area of our otherwise shady backyard. With my mom's help, I planted an assortment of vegetables: tomatoes, onions, potatoes ('A potato is a tuber.' 'It's a what?'), and green beans.
One way would be to insist on offering a vegetarian lunch option at least once a week on school menus. Children could learn to eat what their counterparts around the world eat. On a healthy note, children would be given a break from government surplus, like milk and cheeses, which are traditionally high in sodium and fat.
The journal article Cooking with kids positively affects fourth graders’ vegetable preferences and attitudes and self-efficacy for food and cooking (2013), by Cunningham-Sabo and Lohse, was a research study done on “Cooking with Kids” or CWK. CWK is an existing experimental food education program aimed at Kinder through 6th grade children in low-income, mostly Hispanic schools in a Southwestern US city (Cuningham-Sabo & Lohse, 2013). This study was intended to evaluate the effect on mostly non-Hispanic white children, and to determine if CWK had a greater effect with children who had not participated in CWK in the past. The hypothesis, based on results from the existing CWK program, was that all children irrespective of their background would benefit their cooking attitudes and self-efficacy for food and cooking from a program that exposes them to vegetable and fruit preparation as a part of their regular curriculum.
I decided to use the book ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats’ (Menzel and D'Aluisio, 2005) as a stimulus for my planning. The book includes pictures and information about different families and foods from around the world. As I wanted the plans to build upon the children’s enquiry based learning, I felt that ‘World foods’ would be an interesting topic for them to explore. Although food can be a sensitive topic, through my experience in various schools, I know that year 6 children will be able to build on their prior knowledge and understand values, beliefs and misconceptions. This topic will also develop their curiosity and support the children in making sense of the real world for themselves through tasks such as food tasting and a visit to the local allotment (Pickford, Garner and Jackson, 2013).
With this mentally, children will not see cooking as a chore, but
All dramatic productions feature the elements of drama. Following a viewing of the scene ‘Someone’s crying’ from the 1993 movie ‘The Secret Garden’ three of the elements of drama have been assessed. Role, character and relationships have been utilised in ‘The Secret Garden’ to create anxiety and suspense, enticing the viewer to solve the mysteries the Secret Garden presents. The protagonist in the scene is a young girl, around the age of ten who during the night leaves her room to explore her residence. The protagonist narrates the scene; she begins by stating that the ‘house seems dead like under a spell’. This makes the viewer anxious and fearful for the safety of our young protagonist. The protagonist is brave. She pushes open a door and
While “home-economics” has been in the school system for more than 60 years, the current version doesn’t typically do a very good job of teaching the basics of cooking. Much of the “food science” portion is centered around making “fun” items that the children will enjoy eating, and typically stays away from utilizing most fruits and vegetables in their curriculum (Cade, Clarke, Edwards, Fraser, 2010). Not only does this help solidify the fact that vegetables are “unnecessary” in a child’s mind, but it also sets them up for failure in creating nutritious dishes that actually taste good. It’s a never ending cycle then through adulthood, of eating fatty calorie laden items and thinking that vegetables are only good when covered in ranch dressing or
Parents play an important role in forming their child’s early eating habits. When your child receives an A+ on his/her math test, what do you reward your child with? An ice cream cone or an apple? Usually parents reward their child with an ice cream cone. But if your child constantly does good do you constantly reward them with ice cream cone? No, parents should not reward their children with sugary snacks because it will soon become a norm for the child. So when they have done something good they feel as if they need the ice cream cone or other sugary snacks. If you want to reward your kids for achieving their goals take them to the park, give them a fruit bowl, or even a hug. Parents are also responsible for what goes in their child stomach during dinner time, so break out your pots and pans moms and dads, because from this day forward we are cooking homemade meals. Home cook meals will allow you to have “complete control over the type and quality of ingredients in your meals” (Roizman). As well as allowing them to take out the extra salt, sugar or fats that are seen in fast food restaurants. Tracey Roizman also states that “preparing most of your meals at home helps train your palate toward healthier fare” in her article known as The Advantages of a Home Cooked Meal. When you are cooking don’t forget the fruits and vegetables on your child’s plate. I know
There are many therapeutic values in this gardening activity that benefit patients entirely. For some, gardening is meaningful, purposeful, and goal-oriented activity (Hewitt, Watts, Hussey, Power; & Williams, 2013). The steps that one follows to pot up a plant or to weed a garden bed are repetitive and goal oriented. Repetitive and purposeful activity has the powerful potential to remediate motor function (Gillen, 2013). This is because, many movement is needed in order to do gardening such as gross motor skills and fine motor skills.
Belvedere meaning “beautiful view” in Italian is a word that many people correlated with the style and design of the Italian Renaissance gardens. The sight of these gardens were truly remarkable in a time where design would settle for nothing less of such. Throughout the report many things will be brought to light in relation to the Renaissance gardens. This report will include many sub-sections that will pertain to the design of these gardens. These sections include, the history of the Renaissance gardens, their influences, the garden’s features and the multiple purposes of the different gardens from the Renaissance. Although each section will prove to be different from the one before it, it will be seen that they all link to one common
The topic I am going to being doing for my project at my placement at Camperdown nursery is the benefits of outdoor play. There are seven benefits of outdoor play for children, they are learning, creativity, health, social skills, wellbeing and independence. Outdoor play encourages children to go outside and get fresh air and burn off some energy, it can improve their physical development. This relates to my placement as the children get the opportunity to go outside and run about as much as possible on a daily basis.
Have you ever considered what is in the food you are feeding your children? Most foods that are bought at the neighborhood grocery stores are considered global foods which are packed with additives and chemicals making them far less nutritious than local produce from the community farmer‘s market. After much research, I have concluded that it is better to buy produce which is grown locally rather than produce which is sourced globally (from other countries). I think this is important because most people, like myself, buy global foods and do not realize how much better local foods are for the local economy, the global environment, and our personal nutrition. Nutrition is vital to the healthy of everyone especially children, so with the purchase of local fresh produce, it can ease the worry in parents of what children as well as ourselves are ingesting. Produce grown locally are healthier for toddlers because they contain more nutrition in the foods, meaning less additives and a better taste, helping them properly develop.
Outdoor recreation is something that everyone needs. Finding that place within yourself that allows you to forget about everything. Whether that be playing with your kids in the nearby park, fishing with your grandfather, hiking with someone or just by yourself you learn something new about yourself. Some people use recreation to forget about something and they use being outside as a calming effect. Williams and Stewart (1998) believe that nature, as a place, creates an emotion bond, has a complex meaning to the person, and that people have this draw back to the place. To get the same feeling that someone would get while doing an activity in nature to simulate Williams and Stewart’s (1998) belief, I recently participated in an