It is also a great way to get them to eat their veggies. Sitting in the garden eating fresh foods that they helped to grow is a rewarding experience for children and the sense of accomplishment is a great self-esteem builder. This is also a good time to immerse them in the dynamics of how natural gardening helps the environment by encouraging biological diversity. Your kids will dig it, I promise. Plant choices are only limited by your tastes in the cool season vegetable garden.
Some plants are also really fun to grow because they are so quick to mature.
When planning out where you are going to locate particular plants in the garden it is good to remember that at this time of the year the sun is lower on the southern horizon. Plant taller crops toward the northern edge of the garden to eliminate shading the shorter crops. One of my all-time favorite cool season vegetable gardening projects for the kids are bean and pea tipis. Select pole bean or climbing pea varieties that you like and plant the seeds at the base of a tipi made from 6 foot, narrow wooden stakes or bamboo poles. A minimum of five stakes should be used to construct the tipi, and durable twine that doesn't decompose too quickly will work perfectly.