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The Importance of Gardening

Gardening with children provides them with skills to help your child's development. Children will enjoy every stage of the process. From planting the seed to see it turn Into a fruit or vegetable. Young children can practice locomotor skills, body management skills and object control skills in the garden.

Gardening is a great sensory activity for them as it allows them to engages all 5 senses.

Gardens can help children begin to work independently as they plant seeds or pick produce. They practice patience as they wait for seeds to sprout and experience the benefit of delayed gratification as they wait for produce to ripen.

Children learn from growing things Gardening is educational and develops new skills including: ... Understanding– as they learn about cause and effect (for example, plants die without water, weeds compete with plants) Self-confidence – from achieving their goals and enjoying the food they have grown.




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