My Little Gardener

I signed Wednesday up for a ton of classes this summer. Today was the first one, Little Green Thumbs. It takes place at the Garfield Park Conservatory. Only $4 a class. They meet once a month for three months. My grandmother found this apron that used to be mine when I was a kid and gave it to me over the weekend. I was super stoked to put it on Wednesday for this. It's fits her perfect right now too.

For the first class, they got to glue a seed onto a piece of paper, then were asked to draw what they thought the seed would grow into.

Then they were read a story about planting a seed and watering it, and seeing it grow, and eating the veggies that grew. After that, we all headed to the garden to start working on our garden. They were all given cards with pictures of veggies on them, and they were instructed to find the matching plant. Wednesday's first plant was a bell pepper plant.

First she dug her hole, then she put the plant in the hole and covered it with dirt. Sounds easy till you try to explain to a 3 year old how to do it. I swear that she doesn't hear me most of the time. I must say, she did very well on the first plant.

So once that was done, she ran around a bit, then we moved onto an eggplant. She wasn't as interested to plant it so I did most of the work on that one.

After the eggplant they were given radish seeds. We poked holes in the soil and dropped one seed in each hole. She seems to like the meticulous job.

Her favourite part was next, watering! What kid doesn't love playing with water. They were each given watering cans and told to water everything they had planted.

After all was done, she was done too. Just ran around like a 3 year old looking for trouble. We will go back in one month to see what has grown. All in all it was a pretty cool class.