We love these containers, and used them for garden harvests all summer long! They are just the right size for kids to have their own container for picking blueberries or cherry tomatoes.<\/p>\n
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Using herbs with kids<\/h2>\n
Here are a few easy project ideas to help kids use the\u00a0herbs in their new garden:<\/p>\n
Fragrant sachets<\/strong> – These are small cloth bags filled with herbs and flowers that you can put in a drawer next to your clothes or hang in a closet to help make your clothes smell good. You can make bags with drawstrings so you can empty and refill them as the fragrance fades, or you can make little pillows by sewing together all of the edges of your sachet. For a strong, spicy fragrance, mix together dried leaves of basil, sage, lemon verbena, and thyme.<\/p>\nHerb butter<\/strong> – An easy cooking project with kids is to soften a stick of butter at room temperature, adding a tablespoon of fresh chopped herbs to it (with a bit of salt and pepper, perhaps), and mashing the ingredients together. Serve with bread.<\/p>\nFamily Favorites<\/strong> – Ask your young gardeners to interview family members to discover which herbs they currently use for cooking and other uses, and which types were traditionally used by their ancestors.<\/p>\nScent Safari<\/strong> – Pluck a few leaves of each herb and put them in a small paper bags. Crush the leaves a bit to release the aroma. Mark the bags on the bottom with the name of the herb. Have kids take a big sniff and have them describe the smell. Can they guess which herb it is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are many benefits to growing in containers. You may not have the outdoor space for a garden, or maybe you prefer to keep your flower or vegetable beds for yourself. Weeding, watering, and harvesting is easier. And kids love having their own containers to plant and tend. At KidsGardening, we are asked all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":21026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1751,252],"tags":[],"acf":{"blog_related_products":[14267],"author_name":"Beth Saunders","author_description":"Beth Saunders became a\u202fcommunity gardener\u202fwhen her big plans for a large home garden were disrupted by moving into a house with a shady yard. Since then, she and her spouse have enjoyed taking their young kids along for the ride as they experiment with what gardening methods work for their low-key lifestyle. \r\n\r\nAfter graduating from Boston College with a degree in English, she has been in nonprofit marketing communications since 2004, with a focus on social justice. She focuses on the KidsGardening social media strategy, email engagement, and website to expand garden-based learning throughout the country. \r\n\r\nBeth grew up in Western Pennsylvania where she was scared to go in her mother\u2019s garden because once a snake was spotted there. She did, however, eat from the garden and her mother\u2019s prolific peach tree. 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