Fun and Easy Gardening Projects For Kids

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Activities and resources created and discovered over many years while raising our own kids

You will need: White Wine Vinegar, empty jars with lids, sticky labels (to label your jars), colored felt tip pens

• Collect some small, medium size jars.
• Wash jars out thoroughly.
• Collect some herbs from your garden.
• We used Pineapple Sage, Thyme and some Rosemary.
• Ask the kids to trim the herbs, then to put herbs in the bottle or bottles.
• Help your kids to add the wine vinegar, fill to the top. Replace lids tightly.
• Get your kids to design a label. They should write on it the name of the herbs in the bottle
• Your kids can then give this as a gift

You will need: Squares of colored paper, scissors, ruler, pencil, drawing pins, straws or small sticks.

• Get your kids to fold their paper in half once and then in half again.
• Take a 10p piece and place in middle of square. Kids can draw around it.
• Then use ruler and pencil to draw along fold lines to center circle.

• Ask kids to cut along fold lines to the circle.

• Then the kids can take the outside of each triangle into the middle.
• Help the kids to fix points of triangles to the straw or stick with the pin.

• These will make great windmills outside maybe as part of a sensory garden.

What you will need: Pine cones, berries, popped popcorn, peanut butter,chopped apple, seeds, needle, thread.

• Get your kids to tie string around pine cone(so that it can be hung from a tree)
• Use knife to smother the pine conne in peanut butter.
• Hang from a tree in your garden.
• Thread the needle and push through the berries and popcorn. Tie a knot at one end hang from tree.
• Thread needle and push through raisins and chopped apple. Tie a knot in end and hang from tree.
• Encourage your kids to wait and watch for birds coming to feed.

You will need: A large plastic bottle (perhaps empty lemonade bottle), a glass that will fit inside bottle leaving a 4cm gap. Garden soil, sugar or cake.

• Cut the large plastic bottle in half.
• Get your kids to put the glass inside.
• Get your kids to carefully pour or spoon the soil into the gap between bottle and glass.
• Find some ants in your garden.
• Collect the ants and add to soil in bottle.
• Your kids can add a small piece of cake or a little sugar.
• Cover the jar with some muslin to stop ants escaping.
• Your kids can watch the ants tunnelling for a few days.
• The kids could keep a journal over a few days and do drawings of what they see.

• Get the kids to return the ants back to the garden after a few days.

More gardening projects for kids will be added soon