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| Helping children enjoy the garden |
 The majority of Australian early childhood education and care services are fortunate enough to have an outside area and many also have a garden which the children are able to be involved with. To read how easy it is to establish a garden in your service click here.
Gardens are magical places for children, filled with opportunities for exploration, physical activity and new experiences. Digging in the dirt, pulling out weeds, watching bees at work and touching, tasting and feeling fruits and veges pulled from a patch are rich experiences for preschoolers.
Sharing the experience with children and encouraging them to fully explore the delights of a simple garden can instill a life long interest passion and appreciation in children and is a fairly straightforward undertaking.
In the Early Childhood Australia publication Everyday Learning Together in the Garden author Lyn Bower says that through gardening children learn:
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