Kiki Plants a Garden — A Growing & Waiting Story | Shalvit Kids TV Storybook No. 43

**Tiny, tiny seeds — smaller than sprinkles! Can they REALLY grow? Just wait and see!** 🌱🍅

Grandma's garden is full of surprises — and today she presses a tiny treasure into Kiki's hand: **tomato seeds and flower seeds** of her very own! Join Kiki, Bibo, Lulu, Pip and Grandma for a whole season of garden magic: digging soft soil, meeting a friendly worm, tucking the seeds in like babies in a blanket, splashing the first watering — and then the hardest part of all… **waiting**. Nothing… nothing… nothing… and then one sunny morning — **A TINY SPROUT!** From two little leaves to yellow flowers, buzzy bees, baby green tomatoes and the glorious first **RED** one, children live every stage of growing with Kiki — and on every refrain page the whole family chants: **"Plant a seed and wait, wait, wait — growing takes time, and time makes it great!"** 🎵

This is the patience story parents reach for in a world of instant everything — because its lesson is one children keep for life: *"Good things grow slowly — I can wait, care for them, and trust God, who makes all things grow."* 💛

🌱 **What's inside:**

- A complete, gentle season-long growing story in short, simple sentences — perfect for ages 2–6 and reading aloud

- The full journey of a plant, made magical: seeds, soil care, a friendly worm, a puppy garden guard, sunshine and rain, the first sprout, leaves, a measuring ribbon, yellow flowers, helpful bees, ripening tomatoes and harvest day

- A **Count the Seeds page** — exactly **8 tiny tomato seeds** in one neat row, drawn and numbered 1–8, verified seed by seed

- A **Count the Tomatoes** page (exactly **12**) and a **Count the Flowers** page (exactly **10**) — real early maths, drawn and numbered in post

- A **How a Tomato Grows sequencing activity** with a full **answer key** — seed, sprout, plant, flowers, tomatoes

- A **Parts of a Plant** learning page — flower, tomato, leaf, stem and roots, labelled with leader lines

- A **What Does a Plant Need? sorting activity** with answer key — sunshine, rain, water and love… not shoes and ice cream!

- **Trace the Garden Words** (SEED, SUN, WATER, GROW, TOMATO, FLOWER), a garden seek-and-find, two colouring pages, a 7-day **My Garden Diary**, a **Draw Your Own Garden** page and a printable **Garden Helper Certificate**

- The **Garden Growing Song** to sing together, and a harvest salad shared with everyone — because gardens are for sharing

- A two-page **For Parents & Grown-Ups** guide: growing patience in little children, and a simple plan to start a tiny garden together (a pot or bucket is enough!)

🎓 **What your child will learn:**

- 🌱 How plants grow, stage by stage — and the real science words: seed, sprout, stem, leaf, flower, roots

- ⏳ Patience and delayed gratification — "growing takes time" becomes your child's own mantra

- 🔢 Counting to 8, 10 and 12 with exact, numbered garden pictures

- 🐝 Nature appreciation — worms, bees, butterflies, sunshine and rain all have a job

- 🙏 Gratitude and faith — we plant and water, and God makes things grow

- ❤️ The heart lesson of the story: *"Good things grow slowly — I can wait, care for them, and trust God, who makes all things grow."*

📖 **Book details:**

- **68 pages** of glossy, colourful, cinema-quality 3D artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip

- Ages **2–6** — toddlers, preschool and nursery; ideal for spring/rainy-season themes, nature topics and patience lessons

- **PDF — instant download** after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the diary, certificate and activity pages at home

- Storybook No. 43 in the Shalvit Kids TV series — collect them all, starting with *Kiki Counts to Ten*!

**Perfect for:** nature and growing topics, rainy-season reading, Sunday school creation lessons, preschool garden projects, and every little one learning that good things take time.

From the makers of *Kiki Counts to Ten* — watch the songs and stories on YouTube: search **Shalvit Kids TV**. 🎵

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