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How to Create A Pizza Garden
Exactly what, you are asking, is a pizza garden? Have fun creating an edible and sensory pizza garden while inadvertently your kids learn a bit of maths, science and horticulture. Like a ‘photo bomb’, this is an educational ‘fun bomb’ for kids.
So here’s the thing, your kids get to grow some of the things they love to eat on a pizza while having fun with planting and design. They also get to own this project and best of all get their little hands dirty planting up.
First ‘brainstorm’ with your children what vegetables and herbs they love to eat on pizzas like tomatoes, onions, peppers/capsicum, courgettes, basil, oregano, garlic, parsley, chives, pumpkin and rocket to name a few. Let the kids make a ‘yummy eating' wish list.
To get started on the creation of your dream pizza garden, take a large round planting pot and fill it with potting soil or simply mark out a circle in the ground (using string or pebbles). Then divide the pot or circle up into ‘pizza slices’ or triangles for planting. Dividing in half, quarters and then eighths using a string is an easy way or you can divide each half into 3, making 6 ‘pizza slices’. You can use pebbles/pieces of wood to hold the dividing lines or make lines in the soil, whichever is the most fun and easy.
Plant each pizza slice with your favourite pizza topping vegetable. Encourage your little pizza gardeners to water well, love, sing and talk (yes really) to the plants while they grow and they will return the favour by making the most delicious pizza toppings.
Enjoy Bella Mia!
You can also create your very own flower garden with our Discovery Nature Play Hideaway and other items from our Discovery Range
Educational benefits of outdoor garden play:
- encourages an awareness for the environment
- introduces kids to scientific concepts
- encourages the importance of healthy eating and living
- gardening engages all of the senses and enhances fine motor development