Child Craft Gardening

Child craft gardening tips

Child craft gardening makes spending time with the children much more rewarding,know that the growing cycle can seem to take forever to the youngest gardeners.

Another unavoidable aspect of gardening that can prove tricky for the littlest gardeners is the tools. With so many distractions found in a flourishing garden, it’s just no wonder a kid loses focus and forgets what he or she was sent to fetch when asked to retrieve something from the tool shed.

To maintain interest, these savvy gardeners turn to quick and easy craft projects to keep the little ones interested. Both these problems – interest and tools – can be overcome with a little help from the daily mail.

A delightful child gardening project that’s fun for young and old alike is to install a mailbox, just like the one used for the daily mail, in a strategic spot in the garden. The mailbox is designed to be weatherproof and it’s small and relatively inexpensive.

The standard mailbox is pretty plain looking, too, perhaps too plain to grace your gorgeous garden. That’s where the child craft gardening fun begins.

Once your child craft project is complete, the mailbox provides the perfect spot to store small gardening tools, such as gloves, spades, and trowels, so they’ll remain close at hand without the need for endless trips back to the tool shed. It’s also ideal for storing seeds, baggies to collect plant trimmings, and maybe even a bottle of sunscreen or insect repellent.

Work with your little one to determine a decorative theme for the craft gardening project. Decorate your mailbox accordingly.

Perhaps you could paint tomatoes if the mailbox is to be installed near the tomato garden, or berries near the berry patch. Colorful tulips painted on the mailbox will draw attention to the bulb garden and sunflowers seem to be appropriate everywhere.

If you enjoy the wildlife attracted to your garden, consider an animal-themed child craft gardening motif. Paint birds, squirrels, butterflies, or any other critters you want to see in your garden.

To personalize your child gardening project and, perhaps, to encourage a budding green thumb, have the child personalize the mailbox and place it in a garden patch that is designated as his alone. Let him paint his name on the mailbox and add plants he wants to grow and the animals he’d like to attract. Put his very own garden tools in the mailbox so they’re handy to him at all times.

This child craft gardening project won’t do anything to shorten the growing cycle but it may be enough to maintain interest at least until harvest time.

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