GARDENING WITH CHILDREN Pam Paulsen County Extension Agent, Horticulture K-State Research & Extension - Reno County
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Site Selection ✿ Safe location ✿ Sunlight ✿ Drainage ✿ Protection ✿ Accessibility & Convenience ✿ People ✿ Water, tools ✿ Wildlife
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Garden Design ✿ Safety ✿ Maintenance ✿ Cost ✿ Accessibility -pathways, gates ✿ Irrigation ✿ Expansion ✿ Plant Material
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Site Preparation ✿ Clean area -remove debris, rocks ✿ Prepare Soil ✿ Mark pathways and garden plots ✿ Construct beds ✿ Install Irrigation ✿ Construct pathways ✿ Plant
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Garden Care ✿ Planting ✿ Watering, weeding, mulching ✿ School breaks, family vacation ✿ Plant protection ✿ Clean-up
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Equipment & Structures ✿ Trellis, Arbors, Fencing ✿ Tools, Storage ✿ Buckets, Sprayers, Hoses
GARDEN CONSIDERATIONS Fertilizers & Pesticides ✿ Safe products ✿ Environmental effects ✿ Organic products ✿ Non-chemical methods
GARDEN SAFETY ✿ Plant Material ✿ Chemicals ✿ Tools ✿ Supervision ✿ Physical Hazards
GARDENING ACTIVITIES ✿ Theme Gardens ✿ Stepping Stones ✿ Weather Station ✿ Composting ✿ Worm Composting ✿ Scarecrow ✿ Adopt a plant
Studying Soil
Beautifying the Boys & Girls Club
Getting to know a tree
Stepping Stones for All
Planting Watermelon Making Mud Pies Critters Daisies Fun in the Garden
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
Plant Propagation
Plantable Seed Cards
Making Stepping Stones
Painting the Stepping Stones
Painting Flower Pots
Planting a Pizza Garden
GARDEN THEMES ✿ Alphabet Garden ✿ Rainbow Garden ✿ Big & Small Garden ✿ Petting Zoo Garden ✿ Pizza Garden ✿ Memory Garden ✿ Sunflower Fort or Bean Teepee
Pumpkin Planter
T is for Toothache Plant
Pumpkin on a Stick
GARDEN THEMES ✿ Bird or Butterfly Garden ✿ History Garden ✿ Geography Garden ✿ Research Garden ✿ Native Garden ✿ Variety Garden ✿ Succulents, sunflowers, tomatoes
Entering through the Gourd Gauntlet
Rub a Dub Dub...
Petting Zoo Garden
Yum...Pizza!
Bean Tent
Sunflower House
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)
GARDEN LESSONS ✿ Entomology ✿ Math ✿ Art ✿ History ✿ Science ✿ Ecology ✿ Recycling ✿ Nutrition ✿ Senses ✿ Geography ✿ Natural Resources ✿ Life Sciences
Doing some research
Looking for critters
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!!!
CURRICULUM ✿ 4-H Plant Science ✿ Project Learning Tree ✿ Junior Master Gardener ✿ National Gardening Association
PROGRAMS ✿ National Gardening Association ✿ OWLS ✿ Junior Master Gardener ✿ Project Learning Tree
Obee Elementary School February 2000
Obee Elementary School September 2001
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.