Where to begin?
First of all, if you decide to develop such a gardening project in a kindergarten, then you must become familiar with the safety rules. You can take part in the offline webinar “General safety rules when working with gardening equipment” (volume 2 hours). Obviously, you are by no means a future gardener, but you can learn a lot and then have a conversation with your children.
After all, if you extend the project to the entire garden, then you also need to cover the junior and middle groups. They can make primitive versions of mini-flower beds on the windowsill. But we will take on the older group more actively.
So, what ideas can I suggest? Of course, the garden theme is most relevant in the spring and summer, but if it is sunny winter or autumn, then there is a chance that your vegetable garden on the windowsill will function all year round. The main thing is to choose unpretentious plants and change them from time to time.
The older group is already grown-up children who understand where the harvest comes from, but I still recommend starting the introduction to the topic with a short presentation on how the growth cycle of garden plants works. If you can find a good educational cartoon, that will also be very good.
Next, I suggest coloring with your children these copy-book coloring books “A Cheerful Vegetable Garden” , while practicing writing at the same time. The next stage is interesting games on gardening themes. I have a small selection that I will be happy to share with you:
- “In the garden, in the field, in the vegetable garden. Lotto game" ;
- Didactic training kit . Games for children “In the garden, in the vegetable garden”: 2 baskets, 8 vegetables, 8 fruits;
And you can complete the introduction to the topic with a holiday in which the children themselves will act as plants. Again, such holidays are usually held during the harvest, that is, in the fall. And you try to break the established patterns and make a holiday in the spring. By the way, you can buy this colorful set for a holiday with masks “Whether in the garden or in the vegetable garden .
Planted a vegetable garden, look what grows!
Look what's growing!
We will look after
Let's go for the sprouts
On March 2, the traditional competition “Mini-garden on the window” was held at the Moscow Regional Administrative Educational Institution No. 158 in the city of Tyumen. There is still snow outside the window, and in every age group there is a green vegetable garden on the window sills. How much imagination, imagination and creativity the teachers and parents put into it! To make the mini-garden attract the attention of children, various themes were used. This is how the plot from the fairy tale “Kolobok”, a village courtyard, the family of the funny “Cipollino”, a ship with small boats and much more appeared.
We are very glad that parents responded with great desire to help with gardening in groups. Using their skills, the parents tied the jars, giving them the appearance of funny little people, sewed and filled nylon animals with oats: bears, frogs, mice, squirrels, etc., turned plastic bottles into boats, built a wonderful village house, wove wickerwork with sunflowers etc. The vegetable gardens turned out to everyone’s surprise, just a sight for sore eyes!
We are very glad that parents responded with great desire to help with gardening in groups. Using their skills, the parents tied the jars, giving them the appearance of funny little people, sewed and filled nylon animals with oats: bears, frogs, mice, squirrels, etc., turned plastic bottles into boats, built a wonderful village house, wove wickerwork with sunflowers etc. The vegetable gardens turned out to everyone’s surprise, just a sight for sore eyes!
Children look after and observe the planting of garden and flower crops, and then in the album “We planted a vegetable garden, what grows in it?” make sketches of planted vegetable and grain crops: beans, peas, beans, carrots, beets, parsley, their seeds and root crops grown, potatoes, tomatoes, oats, wheat, etc.
The photo report was prepared by: Marina Viktorovna Krapivina, deputy head of the Medical Educational Institution No. 158 of the city of Tyumen
No wonder winter is angry,
Spring is knocking on the window
And he drives him out of the yard...
Pupils of MADOU kindergarten No. 118 in the city of Tyumen felt the arrival of spring in all its glory!
The creative teaching team did their best for the children! Poplar and birch trees have put out their leaves on the window sills in the group rooms. In the gardens created by the hands of teachers and children, dill and peas sprouted. Children with great pleasure replenish their supply of vitamins with green onions grown by themselves!
“Village Compound” - teacher Popova E.L.
“At Masha and the Bear” - teacher Zlobina N.V.
“Vegetable garden all year round” - teacher Shustova A.G.
“Pleten” – teacher Galimova M.I.
Photo report prepared by: Elena Vasilievna Suetina, Deputy Head of Education and Resource Management of the Medical Educational Institution, Kindergarten No. 118, Tyumen
MAOU Byzovskaya primary comprehensive school, department of preschool education (Uporovsky district)
After looking at the information about the photo exhibition “Planted a vegetable garden, look what’s growing!”, the teachers of our small kindergarten, O.N. Medvedeva and L.A. Zhenikova, decided to decorate their vegetable gardens on the window, and this is what they came up with.
Senior teacher T.V. Smagina
In March 2012, the project “Vegetable garden on the windowsill” was held at the kindergarten No. 59 in the city of Tyumen. In each age group, “vegetable gardens” were created where children could observe the growth of plants.
Target:
To generalize and expand the knowledge of preschoolers about how to care for plants indoors; involve as many children as possible in the project; make the project a co-creation of the teacher, children and parents.
Results:
video clip from the teacher of kindergarten No. 59 in Tyumen, Larisa Mikhailovna Koksharova
Author of the photo report: Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of MADOU d/s No. 59 of the city of Tyumen, Bagaeva Tatyana Nikolaevna
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What will we sow?
So, when the children are already in the know, they will be looking forward to the planting process itself, because this is the most interesting thing, throwing a seed into the ground and waiting for the results. Here, by the way, a very good educational moment is being worked out - training patience. The child sees that in order for something to grow, one must wait patiently. But don’t just wait, but carefully look after your mini-garden - water, fertilize if necessary, loosen the soil, tie up seedlings.
In order to choose plants that are ideal for growing on a windowsill, I suggest that educators first familiarize themselves with one book. And then show it to the children along with pictures and explanations. This book is called “Vegetable Garden on the Windowsill” from the Belaya Vorona publishing house. With its help, you will teach children to grow both ornamental and edible plants, and you will also be able to conduct some exciting experiments.
You can also buy ready-made seeds , which are intended specifically for gardening on the windowsill - and you can be sure that green beauty will not keep you waiting long. These spices can be cut off and they will immediately grow again. Perhaps with your mini-garden you can satisfy the requests of preschool kitchen workers for parsley, dill, basil and other spices.
You can even hold a competition for the best vegetable garden on the windowsill among kindergarten groups. In this case, of course, an important role should be given to design. In the senior and preparatory groups, students can become real participants in this event. You can ask each group to come up with names for their vegetable garden and write poems about it.
Recommendations
- For a vegetable garden on a window, you need to choose the sunny side; if there is none, you will have to come up with additional lighting.
- Compliance with the temperature regime in the room should not be lower than +17 degrees.
- Mini garden beds require ready-made soil. There is no question of any fertilizers - their use in preschool institutions is strictly prohibited.
Decorating a vegetable garden on a windowsill
This is perhaps the most difficult moment. And I think that the colleague who asked me to expand on this topic in more detail was referring specifically to design ideas.
As for the older group, I see the garden there as follows. Each student, after a preliminary introduction to the topic, chooses the plant that he would like to plant. For some it will be an onion, for others it will be a sunflower, etc. For each child, you can purchase identical pots, on which a sticker with the child’s name will be affixed. Or perhaps you will be able to buy bright multi-colored pots of the same style, but in different colors.
Then you will need to choose a time to plant the plants and spend at least 30 minutes every day to develop this theme further. For example, show cartoons about the growth cycles of each of the selected plants. Water them on separate days. In others, you just need to make sure that the soil is neither dry nor wet. You can make a calendar in which each child writes the name of the plant and puts the planting date and germination date.
If this option does not suit you, then you can saddle everything in the form of a single composition on one windowsill. The main thing here is to choose a concept. There are a lot of design ideas on the Internet. It could just be a few pots with different plants and a little herb, or it could be all green plants, or, conversely, all multi-colored. You can decorate your garden with some decorative figures.
I am sure that you will find a suitable option among the photos, but I have not seen my option, which I suggested first, anywhere. Try to do this, although it is costly in terms of money and time, it is worth it. This will be a real highlight of your group.
DIY stuffed animal
When designing your summer cottage, dividing it into zones, we use a huge number of landscape design elements. Modern styles reign in almost every garden, decorating and delighting us with an abundance of fountains and alpine slides. However, you can find gardens where the old styles and customs are still preserved. See all the beautiful flower beds photos here.
Probably everyone has a scarecrow in their garden. He is wearing old trousers and a shirt, and with all his appearance he is supposed to drive birds away from the beds. Nowadays, the scarecrow has become not just a scary element in a gardener’s garden, but also a wonderful addition to the garden.
Garden scarecrow in the country. How to decorate a garden
A few words in conclusion
I hope that you will continue the topic in the comments and tell us about your experience of planting with children in the preschool group. I also advise you to read an article on a similar topic, “Little florists - let’s raise little aesthetes.”
And for those colleagues who have their own garden, I recommend paying attention to this book . ” I'm sure you will learn a lot of useful things from it. Thank you all very much for your attention! Don't forget to like if the article was useful to you. The more likes you get, the more you inspire me to write more often.
Sincerely, Tatyana Sukhikh! Till tomorrow!
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What are the benefits for a child of having a vegetable garden outside the window?
By creating a miniature vegetable garden on the window, children receive new information. They learn how to care for crops and expand their vocabulary. Previously, terms such as planting, loosening, seeds and others were incomprehensible to them. And now the guys have a clear idea of all this.
You can come up with different addition and subtraction problems. For example: “we planted 6 bulbs, 4 of them managed to germinate and produce a green feather. The question is how many bulbs have not sprouted at the moment.”
These are not all the advantages of this project. Direct participation in planting plants develops a sense of responsibility in children. As they master new knowledge, they independently seek answers to their questions. Thereby enriching your inner world and expanding your horizons.
DIY stuffed animal
Previously, you could find a really scary, disheveled scarecrow, planted on a pole in the center of the garden. Now everyone wants to make something beautiful and neat, and the garden scarecrow has not escaped this trend. In modern gardens there are neatly, one might even say stylishly dressed scarecrows.
From the usual two wooden sticks and a country flower pot you can get a magnificent lady. All that remains is to dress her up and draw a face on the pot, and instead of hair you can use hay or grass planted directly in the pot.
Sometimes crafts are truly touching. For example, a stuffed animal can be made from a children's toy. More precisely, taking her head. A beautiful smiling crow with a straw body, in a beautiful hat with a bright flower and a dress looks simply elegant. True, the question immediately arises as to who such a crow can drive away, rather the opposite.
In the original garden you can find whole groups of stuffed animals. Which looks very colorful and with a touch of humor. As you know, a scarecrow is made from straw; unfortunately, it is not always possible to find enough to create little men. Then ordinary grass can come to the rescue or just make a small scarecrow.
If you delve into the ancient times, you can find out that the scarecrow’s master’s clothes were given for a reason to dress him. It was a kind of ritual. The straw man, dressed in the owner's shirt or pants, took responsibility for the safety of the garden not only from birds, but he also served as a kind of amulet against the evil eye.
Ready-made stuffed animals that are sold in the store
A straw man in country style will look especially harmonious. It will organically fit into the garden and will not only protect it, but also add some zest.
