• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Not Your Average Mom

Not Your Average Mom

Always evolving.

  • Blog
  • Home
  • About

start a garden with your kids :)

April 17, 2013 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year again…

Time to start planting!

Wooo hoooo!!!!

Since I kind of have a secret desire to homeschool my kids, we started yesterday and made it a multi-age activity.

Thought I’d share in case you want to give it a try too.

I saved my pumpkin seeds from last Halloween’s pumpkin carving, and I had some flower and lettuce seeds left over from last year.

DSC00120

We talked about recycling and reusing.

We found egg, yogurt, cottage cheese, and apple containers to plant our seeds in.

DSC00110

Then we got our shovels.

We started by turning over the dirt in last year’s pumpkin patch.

We got some exercise, we got some dirt, and we also started to prepare the garden beds for this year.

2013-04-14 11.58.41

 Who doesn’t like to dig in the dirt?

DSC00100

Number 3, who was a little tired, realized that gardening is hard work.

2013-04-14 12.08.45

We brought the dirt over to the planting station.

2013-04-14 12.13.53

We sifted the dirt to clean out all the junk.

DSC00106

DSC00105

Look at that nice clean soil 🙂

DSC00107

Then we got to planting.

We used the egg and apple cartons for the pumpkin seeds.

We had a lot of those 🙂

DSC00124

DSC00122

We labeled the other containers before we planted anything in them so we didn’t forget what was inside.

DSC00118

DSC00125

DSC00129

Then we watered everything.

DSC00131

DSC00126

Even Number 7 pitched in.

DSC00135

Well, she may have watered the table more than the plants…

Once we were all done outside, we brought our seeds inside, and put them in the window.

We’ll watch them grow.

1366153453885

Then we did a little research on the computer to learn a little more about planting.

1366151795647

Number 3 and 4 now know how to copy and paste information they find on the internet into a word document.

They cut out their new info and taped it into their journals.

1366159679291

We read it together. Now they know what the next step in the planting process is.

Number 3 and 4 were pretty proud to learn some new vocabulary words, including sow, seedling, and transplant.

Number 3 is excited to show his teacher what he did when Spring Break is over and he goes back to school.

1366159695920

So we covered a lot of bases:

  • physical activity
  • science — protecting the environment and recycling, gardening, pumpkin facts
  • writing
  • reading
  • computer skills
  • art
  • and cooperation

And you know how much it all cost?

Nothing!

A win, on all levels.

Happy Planting!

PLEASE TAKE ONE SECOND TO VOTE FOR ME!!!

tmb-468x60-fast

  All you need to do is click on the banner above to register a vote for me! 

 You can vote one time every 24 hours from every computer and cell phone! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! I really appreciate your support!

 Check out and “like” the not-your-average-mom.com facebook page!

Follow me on Twitter @mom_not_average

Filed Under: Kids' Corner Tagged With: gardening, homeschooling, reduce, reuse recycle, seed planting

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Looking for a particular post?

Follow Me!

Categories

  • Exercise
  • Food
  • Funny Stuff
  • Lessons I've Learned
  • Life at My House
  • Mental Health
  • Parenting
  • Self Care

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog Posts
  • Privacy Policy