1. Gardening At Your School By Linda Hlozansky

2. When Did Your Love of Gardening Begin? Many Gardeners will say…when I was a child. Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Grandpa shared their love of gardening with me.

3. GARDENING WILL UNPLUG THE CHILDREN!

4. I need some ideas….. Seed Race: Use a peat pot starter with several segments Add soil Put a different seed or two in each segment See which will come up first.

5. Choose Seeds that Germinate Quickly! Radish Pumpkin Zucchini Cucumber Carrot Peas Try Potatoes in early spring out in the garden.

6. Digging This is great fun, but our clay soil is really hard for young children to dig. Find a pot, raised bed, or old sand box (with a lot of holes in the bottom), and put in some good garden soil.

7. Children need child-sized tools

8. Look for Worms or Bugs!

9. Water! They will enjoy it! They learn to care for something.

10. Harvesting They may eat their vegetables if they grew them!

11. Add Color and Interest with Flowers

12. Write the Child’s Name in Flowers

13. Make a Rainbow with Flowers

14. Enter Something In the Fair

15. Ownership is essential. Say, “Your garden” or “Our Tomatoes”

16. Make the garden a place to play Welcome to Gnome Town.

17. Grow Places to Hide!

18. Make a Scarecrow Use the child’s old clothes and let him name it.

19. Make Stepping Stones

20. Make a ROCK Garden! With or Without Plants

21. Make a Mini-Garden in a Pot

22. Add Sand to the Garden!

23. Make Plant Markers

24. Make a Terrarium

25. Make Yard or Garden Art

26. Make Egg Heads!

27. Make Grass Caterpillars

28. Kitchen Gardening Grow an Avocado Plant Grow a Sweet Potato Vine Grow Herbs Grow Alfalfa Sprouts Grow an African Violet Grow a Pineapple Top Grow a Dish Garden You have done all of these things, but they haven’t

29. Grow A Salad in a Bowl or Colander

30. Berries Attract Kids Like Flowers Attract Bees

31. Make Tea With Your Mint

32. Collect Seeds for Gifts

33. Encourage Teens to Garden too! Give them an area of their own!

34. Make Fairy Houses

35. Birney Elementary Junior Master Gardeners Love Fairy Houses

38. Check Out A Couple Of Books

39. Nature Website http://www.enature.com/fieldguides

40. Gardening With Kids This is a print magazine and a website. Look at the website, and if you like it you might want a subscription.

41. Additional Websites! National Wildlife Federation The Great Sunflower Project Monarchs across Georgia Kids Gardening http://www.kidsgardening.comhttp://www.kidsgardening.com Young Gardeners http://www.younggardeners.com http://www.younggardeners.com Earth Easy www.storeforknowledge.comwww.storeforknowledge.com tools,gloves&more

42. Book List Read a book about a garden topic and follow up with an activity. For instance: 1.Read the book Linnea’s Windowsill Garden by Christine Bjork. 2. Make a windowsill garden.

43. We Made A Book List For You Here are some books to buy or borrow from the Cobb County Public Library. The books with * are available from the public library.

44. Book List 1.Read Pumpkin, Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington. 2. Plant pumpkin seeds.

45. Book List 1.Read Sam Plants a Sunflower by Kate Petty 2. Plant a Sunflower

46. Book List 1.Read The Empty Pot by Demi 2. Help the child plant flower seeds.

47. Book List 1.Read The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono. (6 th grade - adult) 2. Plant a tree.

48. Avoid poisonous or thorny plants.

49. Relax and Enjoy The Goal is to enjoy the time together in the garden. No need for perfection!