Off to the garden! 30 activities and ideas for urban gardening with children

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Illustrated by Anja Goossens

Get to the beds! Pull plants, grow vegetables & design the garden

How do you attract earthworms? Can nettles be used to make fertilizer? These 30 exciting gardening projects and recipes bring children into contact with soil and plants and encourage experimentation. Whether doing handicrafts for the garden, growing seeds, making birdseed or cooking herbal sweets yourself - it's easy to get started, because the idea for the season is quickly at hand thanks to the picture cards.

When making her selection, author Silke Bicker attached great importance to easy-care beginner projects that also work well with kindergarten groups. It doesn't matter whether a large bed is available or just a small area, such as a pot garden or balcony garden. This makes gardening with children fun and a soothing experience for all the senses.

• 32 DIN-A5 cards made of solid cardboard, printed on both sides, with methodological notes
• Sow and harvest with children: 30 gardening tips for all four seasons
• Simple projects for quick success, no prior knowledge required
• All garden ideas also work for balconies and terraces, in tubs and boxes
• Imparts factual knowledge about plants, nature and ecological cycles
• A pedagogical offer to participate for daycare, all day, school and at home

From seed to plant: These 30 beginner projects are guaranteed to succeed!

Growing your own vegetables, growing seedlings, designing beds and processing the harvest: gardening is all the rage. And because the love of nature often begins with gardening and handicrafts with natural materials, these clever garden projects give children the opportunity to do so.

The “Off to the garden! 30 actions and ideas for urban gardening with children” not only encourage participation and being outside, but also teaches children about the world of plants in a playful way!