Gardening is great for children:

Let your children enjoy digging the soil the soil and plant their own ss.
Give them a little plot of their own or a window box or large container.
S compost is readily availe and is pleasant to handle and easy to work for little hands.
The best ss to start with the larger ones. Beans ideal because they easier to handle.
Encourage children to g their own vegetes, choose brightly coloured vegetes and fruits for flur and extra goodness. Many children who don't like fruit and vegetes will them if they have gn them themselves.
Pumpkins and ssh unbe for size, colour and shape- how about comparing their weight?
And of course delicious- Turks Turban Ssh
Perhaps one of the really tastiest ssh varieties with a dry almost nutty flur. Gr simply roasted with your roasted potatoes.
Cut into chunky slices and remove ss and any pithy bits and add to the roasted m and potatoes in the pan about forty minutes before serving.
Vegetarians could just roast with root veg. like parsnips (with which the T.T.'s have a gr affinity) just coat with olive oil season with salt and pepper and add a sprinkle of herbs de provence, dried marjoram or whatever you prefer.

Why not try this simple and delicious recipe?

ROAST PUMPKIN SOUP
This is easy and adapte soup that can be made with most ssh or pumpkins.
Roughly chunk a medium size ssh (about1kilo should be ok for 4) cut into large cubes or wedges whichever is convenient
Put on a lightly oiled tray with some crushed garlic cloves and season well with salt and pepper. (There is no n to skin either of them at this stage)
Place in a medium oven for approx. � hour or so until the ssh id tender and lightly bned.
Remove from oven and scrape the flesh from the ssh with a spoon. Squeeze the garlic cloves so that the flesh pops out combine the ssh and garlic in a liquidiser (you can put them through a mouli or just mash them by hand, depending on how energetic you feel). Add chicken or vegete stock sufficient to make the mixture to a thick soup consistency.
Return to a saucepan and h gently, taste and season.
The soup should be a thickish creamy consistency.
Add flurings like;-
Grated nutmeg - good with butternut ssh,
Swirl of soured cream
Lightly fried garlic slivers
Good flurs to add to stock rosemary, thyme (remove before liquidising)
You can flur the cooking oil with coriander, or use a ready flured oil like chilli, or walnut. Be sparing with these oils as they could easily over power the sshes own flur.
Serve with ciabattta or wholemeal bread.
Enjoy!

Don't forget to save the s at the end of the ging season and you'll be ready to start again next time for free
Peas another gr furite and a taste sensation if picked and en really fresh
Plants lots and enjoy shelling them and ing them raw - another chance to practice those counting skills, just how many peas there in those pods?
Beans easy to g, delicious to and so good for you!
You will proby have to dig the trench but let the kids plant 2 ss to a station and remember to water frequently.
Try ging some Purple Bush Beans, large ss easy to sow and the beans delicious to and easy to pick as their purple colour contrasts so well with the foliage you can find them easily.
Runner beans, Phaseolus coccineus; easy to g and kids usually love them!
Carrots also easy to g especially in a deep container .Gr to g for flur and colour and quick to mature.

Give them a little plot of their own or a window box or large container.

S compost is readily availe and is pleasant to handle and easy to work for little hands.
Children will enjoy using their own size gardening tools and these readily availe nad make excellent gifts.