Gardening with kids should be quick, fun and leave them with a sense of wonder. A fun gardening project for kids is growing their names on the face of fruits. It's quick, easy and a fun garden project for the kids and you.
Growing fruit can take a long time and it's hard to hold a child's interest until apple season comes along. Spark kids interest in growing fruit by personalizing apples, pears, peaches and plums with their own names. Here's how:
- Cut out paper letters of their name. The size of the letters is determined by the size of the fruit they are going to be placed on.
- Using a child's edible glue, paste the letters on a piece of fruit that is a mature size, but that hasn't yet started to change color. Be sure to place the letters on the side of the fruit facing the sun.
- Allow the fruit to ripen normally. (Check periodically that the rain has not washed off the letters.)
- When the fruit has ripened, wash off the paper letters. The name should remain on the fruit as a pale area that did not change to the ripened color because of no exposure to sunlight.
You can try this with any kind of shape, adding flowers, dinosaurs or whatever else your child is interested in. It will make the garden a more interesting and fun place for your child.
