Thursday, May 12*, 2022, 630-830pm

*Please note this was originally scheduled for a different date. Please make sure you have the corrected date on your calendar.

Gardening with Children and it's Benefits
Areas: 4,5

Location:
TBA

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Presenter: Karen L. Stairs owner of A Step Ahead Consulting, Workshops, and Professional Organizing
Karen is a mom of 4 and a grandmother of 4.  She has worked in the field of Early Childhood Education for over 37 years. Karen is also a Creative Memories Advisor. Her interests are camping, gardening, quilting and scrapbooking.

Description: Gardening with children provides the perfect combination of skills and tasks to address a child’s
development. Growing a gardening is a great physical development activity.
Young children can practice large and small muscle development while gardening. I will even throw in
some Gardening songs with music and movement in them!
Another aspect of physical development is the sensory stimulation: Watering, touching the plants,
feeling their textures and playing in the soil is a great way to enhance sensory stimulation.
Gardens are a visual explosion of colors... and children are often more willing to try a new food if they
have been involved in the process of growing it. Math and Science are involved too !
Literacy skills can be part of gardening...I will give you a list of some of my favorite children’s books.
Gardening also fosters Cognitive development. Working together on your garden with your children is togetherness
time. Social Time is key in a child’s development... Just watch them grow as their garden grows!! It can be a garden bed, a
container garden or a simple pot to grow your garden in...From years of experience growing gardens
with my child care children...I know they will love it!! Each participant will also get the chance to get their
​ hands in the soil with a Make and Take Activity.