5 Best Gardening Tools for Kids to Complete Chores

Kids love to help with chores and they love the feeling of helping their families and contributing to important tasks around their homes, especially gardening chores.

It is important to provide your kids with the proper and age-appropriate gardening tools for them to be able to effectively complete their chores in the garden. So, when kids have tools of their own, they are more likely to complete their chores without fuss or without any complicated issues. Sometimes shovels and buckets can be too heavy for kids and it discourages them from helping.

So let’s take a look at what types of gardening tools for kids are on the market just for little green thumbs.

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Gardening Tools for Kids

1

Fall rakes.
Garden rakes.
Shovels.
Garden hoes.

And since shovels and rakes can be too heavy for little kids, it is a great idea to provide them with size-appropriate tools for them to be able to manage. They will feel very helpful in the garden when they have good smaller-sized tools to work with and do not need your help carrying or doing anything.

So make sure the rakes and shovels are of good quality and will last. Avoid plastic and toy-like tools. The market does provide good quality garden tools for kids that are made of wood and metal.

Many of these types of gardening tools for kids are colorful, which is what kids love and are attracted to. Heck, I want a pink shovel too! Oh wait, I definitely have one of those!

Make sure to include fall rakes, garden rakes, shovels, and garden hoes of good quality made from wood and metal.

2

Wheelbarrows.

Provide your kids with a good smaller and lightweight wheelbarrow for them to complete their gardening chores. With a wheelbarrow, they can haul compost to the garden beds, haul flower pots to certain areas around the garden, or just haul away yard waste.

In addition, make sure the wheelbarrow will last and be made of steel.

P.S. Beware, they may even try hauling away one of their siblings in this thing!

3

Wagons.

Furthermore, you should also provide your kids with a garden wagon. Some kids may find pushing a wheelbarrow hard work, but would adore pulling around a little wagon to help around the garden. Like a wheelbarrow, a wagon can help kids haul compost, pots, buckets of water, and yard waste to complete their chores. For all those reasons, be sure to provide them with a wagon.

4

Buckets.

Provide your kids with good-quality gardening buckets. If possible, try to avoid those flimsy plastic ones that are mostly meant for the beach and building fun sandcastles.

Make sure the buckets are made of metal, which will last longer. You can provide a pack of colorful metal buckets for your kids to use around the garden.

Kids love hauling water around from one area to the next. If you watch a young child with a bucket, you will notice how they fill it with something from one area and dump it in another area.

Help them with their efforts and direct them to fill up their buckets with water from a water source in one area and have them dump it around the garden in another area. They will have fun repetitively doing this task over and over and your child and plants will both be happy.

5

Watering cans.

Like a fun bucket, providing your kids with a smaller-sized watering can is the best option to help them water the plants in the garden. Dumping water from a watering can capture the natural curiosity of young kids who love watching the water sprinkle softly over plants as they pour it over them.

Rather than a quick watering dump at once from a bucket, a watering can uses a softer gentle flow of water that will captivate your kids to willingly repeat their watering chores in the garden.

Summary

I hope I have inspired you to grab some good gardening tools for your kids. Again, remember kids love to help get chores done, so help them by providing the best tools for them to use.

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