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gardening tools for children
my grandson will be 5 in a few weeks time and he is to have a piece of
garden to work and hopefully learn how to grow things :-) I think that a good birthday gift would be gardening tools, can anyone recommend a good make that would be suitable for this young man. kate |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message from Kate Morgan contains these words: my grandson will be 5 in a few weeks time and he is to have a piece of garden to work and hopefully learn how to grow things :-) I think that a good birthday gift would be gardening tools, can anyone recommend a good make that would be suitable for this young man. Give him his own proper adult sized hand-fork, trowel and dibber.You could also give him a strong polypropylene 2-gallon bucket (for carrying tools, collecting stones and weeds) and one-gallon plastic watering can. IME, children don't like child-sized tool-sets of any kind (which they correctly perceive to be toys, not fit for real work) and much prefer to use the proper ones they see adults using. And in my expensive experience, once they're big enough for proper but child-sized tools (Bulldog, among others, make lovely ones) they won't want to use them. The hoe was quite useful to me, though, despite the short handle: nice and narrow. -- Mike. |
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message ... Janet Baraclough wrote: The message from Kate Morgan contains these words: my grandson will be 5 in a few weeks time and he is to have a piece of garden to work and hopefully learn how to grow things :-) I think that a good birthday gift would be gardening tools, can anyone recommend a good make that would be suitable for this young man. Give him his own proper adult sized hand-fork, trowel and dibber.You could also give him a strong polypropylene 2-gallon bucket (for carrying tools, collecting stones and weeds) and one-gallon plastic watering can. IME, children don't like child-sized tool-sets of any kind (which they correctly perceive to be toys, not fit for real work) and much prefer to use the proper ones they see adults using. And in my expensive experience, once they're big enough for proper but child-sized tools (Bulldog, among others, make lovely ones) they won't want to use them. The hoe was quite useful to me, though, despite the short handle: nice and narrow. The 5-year old next door to me shuns tools and does all his gardening using his fingers. Mind you, his gardening mostly consists of throwing worms at his sister. Steve |
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My son is getting on for 3 years now and is always using his plastic tools that were bought for him from ELC, but they also do miniature 'real' tools for older children. This is the only place i have seen them in. Also they have got sets of grow your own strawberrys. |
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