Home comfort in kindergarten: a picturesque garden on the windowsill

Growing mini-vegetable gardens on window sills with kindergarten pupils helps to model cognitive, aesthetic and environmental skills in an easy, successful and entertaining way. Kids acquire new knowledge and skills, they develop fine motor skills and discipline. Children learn to be attentive and caring, to notice beauty in everyday things. It is not at all difficult to create miniature oases of fresh vitamins in any preschool educational institution.

Basic conditions for the implementation of ideas

In this project, special attention should be paid to safety rules:

• choose a reliable location so as not to harm the activity of the kids in the room;
• the beds must fit completely in the designated area of ​​the windowsills;
• Since fertilizers cannot be used, it is necessary to purchase ready-made soil from gardening stores.

We need to worry about a sufficient flow of light. The best option is windows facing south or southeast. Additional lighting is created using a variety of lamps, including special ones.

For a successful experiment, you should adhere to a temperature regime that is comfortable for plants. Greens will thrive in constant heat, the permissible minimum is +17 degrees.

Play and useful activities

Attracting children to work with vegetable gardens on window sills has age characteristics.

• In the younger group, kids watch more what adults are doing here. They can hold an onion or clove of garlic in their handles and then watch how they are planted. The best option for rooms with such babies is two small but bright containers with bulbs. Their feathers appear quite quickly, which contributes to fixing attention on them.
• The middle group is distinguished by curiosity and creativity. Toddlers can first participate in decorating boxes, planting seeds, and then in decorating their gardens. In addition to bulbs, legumes are sown. Only such large seeds can be held with fingers by 4-5-year-old babies due to the peculiarities of the development of fine motor skills. But they already understand that it is necessary to take care of the garden, water the plants, and help the teacher, getting a lot of positive emotions.
• Older children are already planting more seeds, including lettuce, cucumbers and dill... If the kindergarten has a plot on the street, you can plant beets, carrots, flowers in cups with seedlings. Now children not only water the plants, but also learn to loosen the soil around the seedlings, help to install a support net for the cucumbers. They monitor the readings of the garden thermometer, the inclusion of lighting over the shoots. In the process of growing, incredible discoveries and joyful impressions await them. The energy of children is directed to the development of imagination when they recognize the stages of growth of seeds that have hatched, decorate their box with various stickers, and share amazing observations of their “pets” among themselves.

Practical invaluable experience

This project promotes the educational process, the development of children's skills, instills a taste for research, promotes the habit of teamwork. Caring for green pets under the appropriate direction of educators brings abundant fruits:

• active vocabulary is enriched and speech develops;
• memory is improved, because children learn rhymes, sayings and riddles, where familiar vegetable crops are mentioned;
• math lessons accumulate when examples are compiled based on the number of plants;
• the outlook of the pupils expands;
• experience in information exchange is acquired.

Little gardeners will remember this exciting and useful activity for a long time.