One of the great joys that you can instil in your children is learning to grow plants from seed; a great place to start teaching kids about the garden.

When you teach your children the joy of sowing seeds, you will find that it amazes them, and probably this will mean that they will want to do it again in future. That is certainly a useful skill to have, and it is something that you can easily teach them in an afternoon. It’s good to start with something that grows clearly visibly and fast, such as cress. You might even encourage the seeds along with some moist paper towels or by covering them up with clingfilm. All of this can be a great opportunity for education for your children, and you should make the most of that opportunity as you see fit. Sowing seeds can be fun and educational in this way, and you should find it interests your children.

If you have the space, and you are keen to keep some animals, then this is something else you might want to encourage your kids to help out with. Keeping animals does wonders for children: it enables them to gain a confidence around animals which can help later in life should they come into contact with them in the wild

It also means that they are going to be able to appreciate and understand issues of animal welfare too. There are some animals that you should be able to keep in your garden pretty easily, such as chickens and ducks.

The benefit of keeping chickens and ducks, of course, is that you get a daily supply of eggs. You can collect these eggs with your children – which they will find to be magical – or ask them to help you feed them with Little Peckers Bird Food. Either way, it’s a great experience for them.