Product Description

Brand new in paperback, Gardening with Children is bursting with fun ideas for getting - and keeping - kids interested in the outdoors. Kim Wilde offers many projects in which children play an active role in gardening, along with insightful tips for making a family garden educational and exciting. Gardening with Children shows parents how to encourage their children to enjoy active and creative outdoor activity, whilst nurturing a shared family interest. Along with guidelines for safety in the garden there are ideas for maintaining a child's attention span throughout the sometimes slow gardening process. Children like to feel grown-up and to see the results of their labours: this book shows parents how to help them. Illustrated, step-by-step projects range from creative ways to plant, such as rainbow and sensory gardens, to making scarecrows, wormeries and tile mosaics. For families with a small garden, or none at all, windowboxes and other activities are suggested. Indoor projects for rainy days are also included, as well as a plant directory identifying good plants for children, chosen for their speedy growth, smell, cost-effectiveness, ease of handling and other child-friendly characteristics. Kim Wilde, an experienced gardening columnist and devoted mother, is the ideal guide for helping parents bring the joy of gardening to their children. Her year-round, easy-to-follow activities will inspire any family for many years.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #292563 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'A guide full to bursting with wonderful ideas for getting children immersed in gardening! There are plenty of illustrations showing the author and her children getting well stuck into the tasks in hand, and the instructions are clear and unfussy. With this many ideas for garden projects, I can see many adults filching her ideas.' Sue Baker, Publishing News '...packed with good ideas.' BBC Food Magazine '...an inspirational book.' Kew Magazine

About the Author
Kim Wilde studied horticulture and planting design at Capel Manor before becoming a resident designer on BBC's 'Garden Invaders'. She has since presented daytime coverage of 'The Chelsea Flower Show' and 'The Great Garden Guide' as well as gardening slots for GMTV and 'This Morning'. Kim has written regular gardening columns for 'The Guardian' and for 'Prima' and 'Bella' magazines. Alongside this, Kim continues to ejoy a busy pop career, her family and her garden.

Customer Reviews

Interesting for children and gardening beginnners!
Kim Wilde has had a very successful career as a gardener during the past few years, having won a medal in an RHS show and having written various gardening columns. This book is proof that she can truly enthuse people - be they children or adults - into this gardening thing. Her lively descriptions of her own experiences in gardening as well as those of her children come across as truthful and enthused, and the 31 projects she describes can easily be reproduced even if you're not an experienced gardener yourself. Some projects require a bigger garden than some of us may have, but others can even be done in the privacy of a two square metre garden!
The lay-out of this book is charming, illustrations and photographs are great. When it comes right down to it, this book is a must-have. At least I think so, and I'm not even very much into gardening myself!

Kim Wilde Gardening With Children
A lovely well simply written book with great pictures of Kim Wilde and children gardening.It goes from showing you how to sow tomatoes plants,Sunflowers,Ivy Hearts,Courgettes,Peas,etc to activities like making a Willow Den,Wands,Hopscotch Path,Tile Mosaics and a Car Track plus many more.
It teaches us how our children can taste,see,smell and feel different plants.The book also tells us how we can make a Fairy Garden,Dinosaur Garden,A wormery and Bird Cakes to hang on trees.Even if your not a gardening fan it's worth buying the book for a good read and of course new pictures of Kim.
Gareth321

Can't wait to get started!
In this book Kim Wilde has come up with numerous inspirational projects to get kids out and doing things in the garden. There are a wide range of ideas for big or small gardens, big or small projects, short and long projects and for all pockets. The projects are clearly explained and the text is interspersed with ideas for 'making life easier' and other ideas for entertaining children - or grabbing their interest - in the garden. Lovely book - can't wait to get started! If only the weather was better.....!