Mini garden for children

create a mini garden

There is nothing better for you children to play outside and to explore, discover and experience first-hand the world around them that make a mini garden for these, since this age is good to provide the child a space, so that he learns what he means «responsibility', Where you can dig, plant, walk with water or play with a wide variety of materials available.

In today's article we are going to show you how to make a mini garden for children, so take a pencil and paper and take notes, because apart from doing something special with them, these kinds of things they will teach you to know the word "values", where the objective will be to create a small mini garden in the garden, balcony or terrace of your house to be explored by the child with the help of adults.

Materials needed to make a mini garden for children

necessary materials

Everything can be bought or alternatively, you can reuse everyday objects that we have at homesuch as wooden spoons, regular spoons, empty water jars and bottles (for pots and watering cans), yogurt cups, wooden boxes, etc.

Other products that we will need are:

  • Wood to limit the mini garden, leaving an entrance for children to pass through.
  • Vegetable soil, to plant flowers, plants and all kinds of vegetables.
  • Leca layer or small stones that will serve to drain the bottom of the pots where we plant our flowers.
  • Plants and flowers of your choice.
  • Tools for the child.
  • Watering utensils.
  • Various materials of your choice so that the child can play in his mini garden.

How to make this small garden step by step?

make a garden step by step

The first thing we have to do is choose a space where there can be both sun and shade and of a size of more or less 1-2 square meters.

We can delimit the space thanks to laying wooden logs or planks on the ground, fixing them with small vertical stakes.

But if you don't want to eat your head, we have to tell you that ready-made kits are available in stores that are assembled and placed on the ground, on terraces or balconies. Also don't forget choose pots of different sizes and colors.

In the garden, work is done directly on the ground, whether it is placed on terraces or balconies and remembering that the pots must have pebbles in the bottom so that the water can pass through them and so that the earth also lasts much longer hydrated.

Starting to have our mini garden finished everything that our imagination asks of us can be explored with the child, remembering that they have to be things that are appropriate to their age, development and curiosity.

We cannot forget topics such as colors and smells, since children love both things equally, so we advise you to plant with it all kinds of aromatic herbs, such as lavender, rosemary, thyme, mint, etc. and / or herbaceous with colored flowers.

As well the texture in this aspect is important, so we can go to the field and collect leaves, small logs, sticks, cork, stones of dimensions that are safe for the child and so that they do not put them in the mouth, etc., since with these materials houses can be made inside the garden, decorate the pots, make labels with the names of the plants or the pictures, depending on the age of the child, etc.

And to finish we have to say that children love to see, touch, observe small animals that live in the gardens and in humid environments, such as worms, small beetles, ladybugs and others. Even a small log can serve as the home for these little insects, yes, always teaching children that insects are living beings and that they cannot treat them badly.


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