Are you feel your child has rely too much on the electronic products? You are wondering what activities you should arrange for your beloved children to make them rely lesser to their tablet and phone? Horticulture activities have proven by research it could help human to develop better in intellectual, physical, emotional and social ability. Let us talk more about how the horticulture activities help us develop better.

Intellectual development

When we start design our own miniature indoor landscape, we may promote creativity talent in each of us in design. Besides that, we have to thinking about the sequence for every step like start with transplant the major plants and follow by place the mini statue on the planter and so on. 

Besides that, learn new skills about the horticulture knowledge and plants. We have to understand the right condition and factors for a plant to grow well and what may make a plant wilted when the condition is not right.

Physical Development 

Train for the steadiness of the hands by conducts the pouring, digging, measuring and layering the materials. Repeated action while design and making the miniature landscape of the pot train their action more agile.

Practice for the hand eyes coordination. While making the arrangement of the miniature landscape. May train the children to be focus in coordinate their hands and eyes working at the same time in arrange the detail part in the DIY miniature garden.

Emotional Development

Develop a self-worth by complete the assigned tasks. Children will become more confidence when they could complete the tasks given. And their self-worth increases every time when they successfully reach a small step. Besides that, even the plants not grown successfully. They have learned to accept the factors that may make the plant fail to grow.

Touch of the plants as practice for reduce defensiveness. Touch the different texture of the plant leaves and stems may reduce their defensive in contact with the new item. Besides that, strengthen the sense of empowerment when they have success to complete the tasks which they are intended to complete.

Train for the ability to be focus. When we make arrangement for the miniature landscape, we are training to be calming and focusing on the task on hand. That could train for our mindfulness in our action.

Social Development 

While we are doing the activities together with the other, we are actually promoting socialize and help to create common topic for discussion. That could enhance the socializing technique of the participants and let those who are afraid to communicate with the other take their first step out of their comfort zone in ease. Besides that, if we may conduct the activities in large group. They could practice how to help each other to complete the task they are assigned like the real community. We may ask for help when we need and we able to help other if we have the ability. 

Horticulture activities have been proved could bring a lot of benefits to the different aspect in personal development. And this have a huge influent for the public in create a healthy personality development especially children who are still in the stage of shaping own characteristic. That is the natural affinity to keep in touch with nature to re-charge energy. So, stay away temporary to the technology and AI. Let us back to the nature and found our energy back.