Garden Experiences in Youth Development
Worm Composting 
with Children

Rebecca Cantey
Sans Souci Elementary School


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Student teaching children outside
Rebecca made stuffed worms to show the reproductive cycle of 

worms. This was done so the kids would be able to identify the 

different life stages of their own worms, which is a good indicator 

of the health of their worm population.

"Young children are drawn to plants and insects by
innate curiousity." 
~Julia W. Rappaport~


 
  All of the children loved their new worm 

friends that Rebecca made.
 
 
 
 

"No matter whether a child lives in the city or a
small town, on a farm or on an island, is happy and
healthy or sick and poor, they can all live better
lives through learning to grow plants." 
~Nanine Bilski~


 
 
A child outside
A girl holding a worm
Shana shows the camera what a red wiggler looks like.
 
 
 

"In the end we will conserve only what we love;
we will love only what we understand,
and we will understand only what 
we have been taught."
~Baba Dioum~


 

 "In gardens, children learn to care, to be patient and
to experience both success and failure."
~George C. Ball Jr.~

Rebecca helps one of the children with his worm bin.

Student helping a child

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