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Gardening with Kids

Get Your Garden Growing with Green Toys Watering Can

May 6, 2015 by Monica Atkins Leave a Comment
Green Toys Watering Can

In full disclosure, Mommy University received the Watering Can from Green Toys in exchange for an honest review. Gardening does not require many tools or gadgets. The most basic tool is the essential watering can. In fact, it is iconic.  In the dead heat of the summer, flowers thirst for water and a watering can becomes … [Read more…]

Posted in: Learning Through Play, Outdoor Adventures Tagged: gardening, Gardening with Kids, green toys, Learning Toy Review, learning toys, learning toys for kids

Learning to Garden with SmartLab’s Get Growing Greenhouse

May 5, 2015 by Jessica Lopa Leave a Comment
Get Growing Greenhouse

In full disclosure, we were provided the SmartLab Greenhouse in exchange for our honest review. Each year I tell myself that I will start gardening. Yet each year passes without a single seed planted. As my kids get older, I see their interest in gardening unfold so I knew it was time. Since I have … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and Sciences, Learning Through Play Tagged: gardening, Gardening with Kids, Get Growing Greenhouse, learning through play, SmartLab, Toy Review

Encouraging a Love of Gardening

May 5, 2015 by Monica Atkins 4 Comments
encouraging-gardening

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn When I first bought my home, I thought it would take me a year to clean up the backyard and garden.  It is closing in on a decade, and we are still nowhere near where I envisioned my garden to be (which by … [Read more…]

Posted in: Health and Sciences, Outdoor Adventures Tagged: gardening, Gardening with Kids

10 Benefits of Gardening with Kids

May 4, 2015 by Jessica Lopa 15 Comments
Benefits of Gardening

We have all heard that being outside in the fresh air has amazing health benefits. We have also heard that planting flowers can be therapeutic. But did you know that gardening has amazing developmental benefits for kids? I may be very new at this whole gardening thing, but it’s easy to see how beneficial it … [Read more…]

Posted in: Child Development, Health and Sciences Tagged: Benefits of Gardening, gardening, Gardening with Kids, Spring Activities

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