i recently sent a care package to my brother's 3 kids, age range 8 to 12.

it was just a basic gardening kit, with homemade seeds - tomatoes, seed potatoes, wheat, yellow corn, Indian corn, and some commercial seeds (rainbow carrots).

i also enclosed some recycled styrofoam cups with the holes already punched in the bottom, some recycled plastic pots (bigger, for the potatoes).

along with some plant labels & a sharpie magic marker. the magic marker comes in handling for labelling the plants and making a hole in the soil to put the seeds.

i didn't hear anything for about 2 weeks, so i thought, "maybe it was a dumb idea".

then i heard back from my mother, their grandmother - they love it !

total cost - maybe $1 for the sharpie marker, $5 if that for the shipping.

SCORE !