Give each child a small part of the garden or a grow bag to produce food!

• Have a competition to see who can grow the biggest carrot.
• Who will have the tallest sunflower?
• Which tomato tastes better..red or yellow?
• How many peas or beans will you have?

Or why not see what you can grow indoors?

• Plant the top of a pineapple
• grow cress in the shape of your child's initial

All supermarkets sell herbs already growing. Introduce your child to these and teach them about flavours, cooking and decoration!

Encourage the children to grow their own herbs from seeds and together delight in the germination and repotting.

Ideas for growing food

Other ideas

The farm

Take your children to the local farm. Here they will see the animals and in many 'City' farms they can actually touch the sheep and even milk a cow. In the spring there are Special Days when sheep rearing and baby lambs are on show.

Children can also help to pick fruit especially strawberries, raspberries and visit apple orchards Let the child bring the fruit home and help prepare it for tea!

Talk about all the fruit and vegetables that the children see in the supermarkets and allow them to choose their own bananas, kiwi fruit or grapes.