Make the garden fun with a children's furniture set
This can be done quite easily with just a small flowerbed or vegetable plot that they can call their own. Some children’s garden furniture will also come in handy when it comes to tea time and rest time.
Planting and caring for flowers and vegetables can teach your children about patience, caring and responsibility in a hands-on and messy way. In younger children in particular, the garden provides a space that stimulates all the senses.
The garden can help children make sense of nature by getting them directly involved in it. Gardening gets everyone out in the fresh air, sharing physical activity and it’s educational. By planting seeds, helping and watching them grow, children will learn some important lessons of life and nature.
To help make kid’s enjoy eating their home grown food outside or relaxing after a hard slog in the soil, there are smaller versions of grown up garden furniture just for them. The Alexander Rose children’s garden furniture set is tailor-made for little legs and arms, that might have trouble reaching the table or the ground on bigger sets for Mums and Dads. There are also chairs, tables and children’s benches for your growing gardeners to enjoy.
If you’re looking for other gardening families to share tips with or want to get more information on children’s gardening, contact your local Dobbies and see what the Little Seedlings Club is up to in your area.
Little Seedlings Club helps children have fun in the garden
