August & Kieran Garden Issue

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"The chicken" did indeed run at midnight on a Sunday in late October 1997

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Bringing New Feet Into the Garden

8. Make it a competition.

10 Great

Ideas to Entertain Kids in the Garden

For same age kids, competition just might be a motiviator.

9. Show off their work.

Everyone enjoys praise

10. Transport their garden into meals and presents.

How bout a pizza garden? Tomatoes and peppers are a great start!

For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations. Isaiah 61:11

11. Make their garden a big deal.

If you encourage them and teach them, you just never know how great they could be at something.

12. Utilize their ideas. They might surprise you because some of their ideas will be amazing asn some maybe not so much.

1. Get their hands dirty.

Kids love to dig in the dirt...

2. Let them explore.

Give them the opportunity to figure things out on their own.

3. It's a Bugs Life.

Help them find the mini-beasts that inhabit our gardens.

4. Just add water.

Water makes any project fun.

5. Involve them from the start.

Include them in the planting process.

6. Make it a game.

Have a weed pulling contest.

7. Give them their own garden It's about ownership and feeling accomplished once they sprout.

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