Things You'll Need:
- Flower pot
- Potting soil
- Daisy seeds
- Watering can
- Small gardening tools
- Child's gardening gloves, shoes and hat
- Vegetable and flower seeds
- Recycled rubber border mulch
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Step 1
Begin with a small pot of soil and a few daisy seeds. Let your child plant the seed in the soil and water it a bit each day until the seed sprouts, grows and flowers.
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Step 2
Choose a place in the yard to grow a garden. Mark its boundaries with recycled rubber border mulch and a sign with your child's name.
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Step 3
Give your child small garden tools to use in his or her garden, along with a gardening hat, shoes and gloves.
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Step 4
Take your child out for his or her first gardening tasks on a nice spring day. Cool or windy weather may result in your child asking to go back into the house.
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Step 5
Help your child plant a few vegetables and flowers. Growing vegetables will encourage your child to try eating what he or she has grown. Your child can pick his or her flowers and present them to family members.
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Step 6
Explain to your child why the seeds need a prepared bed and water to sprout and why plants need sunshine to grow. Talk about the need for fertilizer and weed control, and the difference between helpful insects and pests.
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Step 7
Harvest your child's vegetable crop and let him or her help you prepare the vegetables for dinner. Decorate the table with a vase of flowers from your child's garden.
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Step 8
Begin again next season, allowing your child to choose which plants to grow and to do more of the work as he or she learns more about gardening.
