Planting seeds with kids can be a great activity to teach them about nature and science about plants. However, you no need to stay till your baby is a grown up kid to show him about how seeds become plants. Instead, planting seeds can be a great activity which you can do with a toddler too. This activity will not only show how seeds become plants, it will also give the opportunity for kids to learn about loving and caring the nature. They will grow the responsibility towards take caring of the plants by watering daily and by adding fertilizers. Isn’t this a good way to impose some responsibility on toddlers?
Planting seeds with my toddler is one of the favourite activities at our home and my kid loves it. We don’t use any special methods or we even don’t buy seeds. I use seeds such as pumpkin, chilli or tomato from our weekly vegetable purchasing and dry the seeds before planting.
Sanu, my kid loves to rake the soil and plant the seeds. After planting the seeds, it is time to water and take care of the plants. When he sees the first signs of plants through the soil, I can see how happy he is. He starts talking with the plants and sometimes he also wants to water more than two times a day which I need to control!
Together with planting seeds, we also enjoy reading the book ‘Seeds Grow’ which explains about planting seeds for young kids. Really, this is a great activity to teach about plant growth for kids. It is good if I can create a garden for kids but with this simple activity we enjoy our love for gardening.
Do you have experience with planting seeds with toddlers?Please share your ideas and memories.
I agree that planting seeds with toddlers is a good way to teach them the responsibility of caring for things. I used to do this with my children when they were young.
Yes,I like this activity and my kid also enjoys it much!
Nice post and photos, can you believe I have never had pumpkin heheh!
Have a seedtastic week 🙂
oh!Sure,you are a picky eater! 🙂 Otherwise pumpkin is in anyone’s menu 🙂
Looks like fun! I am lucky that my husband likes planting with our daughter so she’s gotten to see all kinds of things grow.
It is so good.She is lucky to experience gardening…
We love planting seeds each year as an experiment (I say that because I do not have a green thumb). So far, we haven’t had a ton of success. Hoping it goes well for you. 🙂
We also do these as experiments.I cant continue most of the time,I know soil condition is poor.Here we need to buy soil and plant medium,so it is always something I postpone… 🙂
Kids are so excited when they see the fruits of their labors. Great teaching moment!
Thanks,we always love these planting moments…
Something that we love doing here too! Our strawberries gave us so many fruits this year but since its autumn now the plants are going to rest but we are looking forward to seeing it go alive again in spring =)
That’s really good you have a garden.We are limited with space,so we do this kind of indoor gardening 🙂