1. GARDENING WITH CHILDREN Pam Paulsen County Extension Agent, Horticulture K-State Research & Extension - Reno County

2. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Site Selection ✿ Safe location ✿ Sunlight ✿ Drainage ✿ Protection ✿ Accessibility & Convenience ✿ People ✿ Water, tools ✿ Wildlife

3. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Garden Design ✿ Safety ✿ Maintenance ✿ Cost ✿ Accessibility -pathways, gates ✿ Irrigation ✿ Expansion ✿ Plant Material

4. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Site Preparation ✿ Clean area -remove debris, rocks ✿ Prepare Soil ✿ Mark pathways and garden plots ✿ Construct beds ✿ Install Irrigation ✿ Construct pathways ✿ Plant

5. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Garden Care ✿ Planting ✿ Watering, weeding, mulching ✿ School breaks, family vacation ✿ Plant protection ✿ Clean-up

6. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Equipment & Structures ✿ Trellis, Arbors, Fencing ✿ Tools, Storage ✿ Buckets, Sprayers, Hoses

7. GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Fertilizers & Pesticides ✿ Safe products ✿ Environmental effects ✿ Organic products ✿ Non-chemical methods

8. GARDEN SAFETY ✿ Plant Material ✿ Chemicals ✿ Tools ✿ Supervision ✿ Physical Hazards

9. GARDENING ACTIVITIES ✿ Theme Gardens ✿ Stepping Stones ✿ Weather Station ✿ Composting ✿ Worm Composting ✿ Scarecrow ✿ Adopt a plant

10. Studying Soil

11. Beautifying the Boys & Girls Club

13. Getting to know a tree

14. Stepping Stones for All

15. Planting Watermelon Making Mud Pies Critters Daisies Fun in the Garden

16. GARDENING ACTIVITIES ✿ Keep a garden journal ✿ Press flowers ✿ Make soup from garden veggies ✿ Start a window herb garden ✿ Make garden markers ✿ Propagate house plants ✿ Force spring bulbs or shrubs

17. Plant Propagation

18. Plantable Seed Cards

19. Making Stepping Stones

20. Painting the Stepping Stones

21. Painting Flower Pots

22. Planting a Pizza Garden

23. GARDEN THEMES ✿ Alphabet Garden ✿ Rainbow Garden ✿ Big & Small Garden ✿ Petting Zoo Garden ✿ Pizza Garden ✿ Memory Garden ✿ Sunflower Fort or Bean Teepee

24. Pumpkin Planter

25. T is for Toothache Plant

26. Pumpkin on a Stick

27. GARDEN THEMES ✿ Bird or Butterfly Garden ✿ History Garden ✿ Geography Garden ✿ Research Garden ✿ Native Garden ✿ Variety Garden ✿ Succulents, sunflowers, tomatoes

28. Entering through the Gourd Gauntlet

29. Rub a Dub Dub...

30. Petting Zoo Garden

31. Yum...Pizza!

32. Bean Tent

33. Sunflower House

34. Enchanted Garden Zinnia 'Thumbelina' Zinnia 'Peter Pan' Grass 'Bunny Tails' Grass 'Fairies Joke' Cupid's Dart Bluebells Baby's Breath Rose 'The Fairy' Thyme (where fairies live) Bells of Ireland (hats for fairies)

35. GARDEN LESSONS ✿ Entomology ✿ Math ✿ Art ✿ History ✿ Science ✿ Ecology ✿ Recycling ✿ Nutrition ✿ Senses ✿ Geography ✿ Natural Resources ✿ Life Sciences

36. Doing some research

37. Looking for critters

38. TIPS ✿ Involve the child from the beginning ✿ Planning -location, design, plants ✿ Planting, Harvest ✿ Show, don’t tell ✿ Assist, don’t do ✿ Allow for extra weeds, broken flowers, early harvest ✿ Have fun!!!

39. CURRICULUM ✿ 4-H Plant Science ✿ Project Learning Tree ✿ Junior Master Gardener ✿ National Gardening Association

40. PROGRAMS ✿ National Gardening Association ✿ OWLS ✿ Junior Master Gardener ✿ Project Learning Tree

41. Obee Elementary School February 2000

42. Obee Elementary School September 2001

43. People think it's only a garden, With roses along the wall; I'll tell you the truth about it It isn't a garden at all! Of course it looks like a garden, It's all so sunny and clear --- You'd be surprised if you really knew The things that have happened here! -- The Secrets of Our Garden, Rupert Sargent Holland It's really Robin Hood's forest, And over by that big tree Is the very place where fat Friar Tuck Fought with the Miller of Dee. And back of the barn is the cavern Where Jesse James is hid; On the other side is a big strong box That belongs to Billy the Kid. That isn't a pond you see there, It's the ocean deep and wide, Where six-masted ships are waiting To sail on rising tide.