Children are easily attracted to activities that are not too serious as they love to play around and have fun with everything they do. Although gardening should be done properly and correctly, it doesn't require one to be drop-dead serious as gardening is an activity to release your stress. Gardening can be introduced to your kids in a more kiddy way. This means that you drop from being a serious gardener into a fun-filled but not stupid gardener if you are planning on sharing the fun of gardening with your kids.

Invite your kids to your garden and show them their little garden. It is best if they start with a small area such as their own garden bed and emphasize to them that it is their own plot. This will make them interested and it will make them more responsible as they will treat it as their own. Make sure that their garden should be located somewhere where they can see it from your house as children love to see their work. However if they choose a spot somewhere else, let them have that area.

Now to begin with the fun part, take them over to the nearest store where you can buy seeds or plants for their garden. Show them around the store and let them look at the pictures on the package of the seeds for sale and let them have their own way when it comes to choosing the seeds for their garden. Seeds are better as they are much cheaper and you can control their number. On the other hand, raising plants can be a bit harder than when starting from seeds although it's alright if they choose plants rather than seeds.

Preparing their garden is the most exciting part for kids as they would be glad to dig for you. Provide them with a small shovel that they can use to dig and remove weeds in their garden bed.
Never let them do this without your presence as they sometimes play roughly with these kinds of tools.

Now that their garden bed is set up and ready to be planted, you can now teach them how to plant the seeds in case you are using direct seeding. If you happened to have seedlings, you can teach them how to transplant properly. Show them how to properly and carefully handle plants.

Don't forget to purchase a small watering can so that they can water their plants on their own. Teach them how to use their watering cans and tell them how often their plants need to be watered. Children love playing with water as much as with dirt so don't get surprised if you see them splashing water around their garden. Don't let them use the garden hose as they are still too young to handle it by their own.

Get them their garden journal so that they can record their activity and write down the development and improvement of the plants in their own garden. This will also make them feel like real gardeners as they will have records of their activities.