Okay, so time for my most frequently asked question for Belinda. How can I make gardening fun for my kids? If you’ve asked yourself this question-you’re not alone! Gardening is great for kids-it teaches them work, responsibility, how to care for living things, and how to eat healthier. However, it can be hard for kids to have fun while they are learning all of that-which is pretty much all they care about, right? Well Belinda with Home Gardens to Go is back to share some great ideas on how to get kids involved and enjoying gardening….oh yeah and we have a fun little giveaway AND SALE as well. I have to make it fun for you too, right?
MAKING GARDENING FUN FOR KIDS
Number one: Give them a little space to call their own! Belinda has great 2×4 boxes perfect for little kids (the smaller size helps them be able to reach everything in the garden!) To see Belinda’s kid boxes, click HERE (and don’t forget to use the code ST9GN17261G6F to get 20% off your kid boxes, this weekend only!). I got one for each of my kids (see those cute kids in the picture above…yeah those are mine…and they LOVE playing in their garden-especially now that their plants are popping up!)
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GARDENING WITH KIDS SALE-THIS WEEKEND ONLY!
USE CODE “ST9GN17261G6F” at check out to receive the 20% off!
MORE GARDENING IDEAS FOR KIDS
Mrs. Green Beans: Turn your garden into a person! Your kids will love watching Mrs. Green Beans take form with living hair and a climbing skirt!
Making your own Wind Chime: Help your kids decorate your garden space with a wind chime made from things right in your kitchen!
Plant Pals: Make your own Chia Pets for your kids to admire in the kitchen window!
Make Homemade Seed Envelopes to Save this year’s seeds for NEXT YEAR!
10 MORE ways to make Gardening Fun! Tips on how to make weeding a game and how your kids can earn a little extra money this summer (hint: it doesn’t involve you making any lemonade either!)
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GARDENING WITH KIDS GIVEAWAY
Gardening with kids just got a lot easier! These great (and super cute) accessories for kids are bound to get kids to love gardening. I even have them for my own kids and it makes their garden so bright, cheery, and kid friendly! Leave a comment to enter one of four (2 boy kits and 2 girl kits) gardening kits for kids.
GET PRO HELP FOR YOUR GARDEN!
Need more help with your garden? (Like me!) Belinda would love to help! Check out all she has to offer to help you set up your garden correctly. I personally had her come set up all of my boxes since I a) wanted to make sure it was done correctly and b) my husband works a lot of nights and Saturdays and didn’t have the time to dedicate to building and setting up boxes.
- Local (Utah) Square Foot Garden Packages
- Shipped Square Foot Garden Packages
- Kid Boxes
- Square Foot Gardening Accessories (Mel’s Mix Soil, Drip Irrigation Systems, Grids, etc.)
She is also offering all of you a FREE copy of Mel’s book The All NEW Square Foot Gardening with a garden package purchase-use the code “Q44I63MPGWH9Q” at check out.
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DID YOU MISS A DAY OF THE SQUARE FOOT GARDENING CLASS?
No problem! Click one of the links below to see what you’ve missed!
Day One: Basics of Square Foot Gardening
Day Two: Secrets for Planning a Successful Garden
Day Three: The Boxes! Learn how to make them, buy them, and some secret benefits!
Day Four: Mixing Your Soil: Mel’s Mix!
Day Five: Composting-learn everything you need to know about efficient and effective composting
Day Six: Watering
Day Seven: Seeds with bonus videos on how to start your seeds indoors!
Day Eight: Planting!
Harvesting Spinach with out the Grit!
Growing with the vertical trellis
See what Belinda did in my own yard!
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I would love to win the kid kits! Both the boy and girl kits are super-cute!
My boys would love these!
We just moved across the country and are near my grandparents. Grandpa has a big garden, i’d love to give my kids a place to learn and have a garden like grandpa!
This looks so fun – my kids would love it!
my kids love gardening with me 🙂 seeing the plants grow and the fruits/veggies get bigger and bigger, it’s so exciting for them 🙂
Ever since we started watching your videos and started a garden, my kids have been outside with me watering and wanting to help with planting the veggies. This garden kit would top it off!!
My son planted a pumpkin seed in Kindergarten and has watered it and tended it. I’m amazed how it’s grown. He apparently has not inherited my brown thumb and would love to win a garden kit!
Cute gardening set. A friend of mine was telling me about a fertilizer that she uses on her tomatoes and I was informed by my 3 year old that our tomatoes are HIS. I guess because he helped plant them, they are his.
What great ideas! And the kids kits are so cute!
I love the kits! My kids would love to have their own tools. 🙂
The kits are adorable!
Cute sets! They would be great to help my kids.
I would love to win one of those kits! I love your little gardens for your kids. I just let my kids run around and get dirty when I work in the garden but it might be a good idea to put them to work next year :).
My husband is always trying to get the kids to help in the garden. If they had their own, maybe they actually would. 🙂
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met here for the gardening give away for the kids, hope this is okay, My grandaughter live in Alaska and have a short growing season but their mother is trying hard to enstill the love of gardening and I think the smaller square beds is a great idea. Wish I had made my vinal instead of wood always replacing the wood on some beds!
I’ll put my com
met here for the gardening give away for the kids, hope this is okay, My grandaughter live in Alaska and have a short growing season but their mother is trying hard to enstill the love of gardening and I think the smaller square beds is a great idea. Wish I had made my vinal instead of wood always replacing the wood on some beds!
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How awesome is this–I already square foot garden, but need to review these tips to do better. My kids already love helping with the gardening–but this would just take the cake for them! Love it!
My kids love to play in the dirt and have asked if we can have a garden (our backyard is all weeds, so we rarely go back there). They would love to have their own tools…and I guess I would then have to have at least a small garden. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!!
What a brilliant idea to have a kid box! Our nearly-three-year-old planted some pumpkins seeds and loved taking care of them…until we went on vacation and they, um, became compost. But she loves working in the garden. We’ll definitely be looking into getting a kid box just for her!
I’ve loved learning more about SFG. My little boy waters our planters everyday and we’re excited to have some garden boxes built soon. A little kit for him to have for his own would be great!
PS I got my sun oven and I LOVE it! I made my EZ wheat bread in it this week. Thanks so much for all the wonderful information. It has made using food storage for our family so easy!