Gardening indoors or outdoors throughout the year

1. Gardening: Indoors & Outdoors
Ideas for Novice Gardeners and for
Experts who love the GREEN of
!
Gail Laubenthal, glaubent@yahoo.com

2. Gardening Ideas for Indoors
Pretend and Learn Center

3. Fall and Spring Flower Shop

4. A Still Life of My
Spring Flower Arrangement

5. Sorting Beans

6. Growing and Measuring Bean Plants

7. Writing in our Bean Journals

8. Writing About Plants

9. Writing Around the Room

10. Learning About Plant Parts
roots
leaves
flower
stem

12. We investigate what
plants need to live & grow

13. Planting Indoors

15. Create a Spring Nature Journal

16. Gardening Outdoors
Cleaning up an old garden space

17. Working in the Garden
Watering
Harvesting

18. Harvesting is the BEST!
Tip: children eat what they
grow in their own garden!

19. Eating from the Garden

20. • It’s never too late to
begin gardening with
your students.
• Start small
• Austin has the perfect
climate for year-long
gardening
• Bottom line: just let
the kids plant
something!