Do you want quick and easy activities to keep your kids entertained all summer? Is it educational for the whole family? After spending a few quality hours in the garden with my two children, I created 10 fun gardening activities for kids. The following content also has some reference value for raised garden beds.
Not only will these gardening activities provide countless hours of fun, but they are a great way to help your children while spending quality time with them.
- Make your own painted flower pot
Age range: All ages
Approximate completion time: 15-30 minutes
Location: Indoor or outdoor
Seasons: All seasons
Required materials
Clay pot
Acrylic paint
Paint brush
Matte paint
Why your kids will love it:
Kids of all ages will love painting POTS for their plants! This is an easy, fun, and quick activity for all children. If they like to draw a jar, you can keep them busy all day!
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Step 1: Paint the clay pot white for a brighter color.
Step 2: When your white paint has dried, you can paint the clay pot any color you like
Step 3: Let the color dry overnight
Step 4: If you want to keep the container outside, add a matte finish
Step 5: Walk around your house and yard and decide where to put the POTS (and plants).
- Play garden bingo
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time: 30-60 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Seasons: Spring and summer
Required materials
Gardening bingo
Why your kids will love it:
Everybody likes bingo. There are people who love bingo more than kids.
This is a fun game that parents and children can play together. Not only will it take up a few hours or time, but it's a great educational game to help your child learn about gardening and outdoor activities.
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Gardening bingo is easy! It's like the bingo game you know and love, but with a gardening theme!
Learn the answers to gardening questions while having fun playing this game. The game comes with 6 bingo cards, chips and 42 picture cards.
- Grow fruits, vegetables, and herbs in POTS
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time: 30-60 minutes
Location: indoor and outdoor
Seasons: Spring and summer
Required materials
Garden container
A plant or its seeds
Potting soil mix
Spray bottle
Why your kids will love it:
This is the perfect way to help your children learn how to garden while also educating them about all the wonderful plants they can enjoy.
Most importantly, it is an activity that both parents and children will enjoy. You can do this no matter where you live!
Step 1: Fill the pot with potting soil. Then spray the soil 10 times.
Step 2: Dig a 1/8-inch hole with the end of a pencil. Put the seeds in the pot and cover them with soil. Then spray 10 more times.
Step 3: Place your pot in front of a sunny window for 8 hours, or under a growth lamp.
Step 4: Spray 2-3 times a day until the seeds germinate in the soil. Keep doing this until your seeds are about 3 inches tall.
Step 5: Finally, continue to water your plants 1-2 times a day until they are ready for harvest. Harvest your plants as you see fit (see instructions in the article above).
- Plant a vegetable garden
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time: 60-180 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Season: Spring, early summer
Required materials
A plant or its seeds
Garden soil
Watering can
Why your kids will love it:
Studies show that children are happier when they are outside. This is the perfect way to get your kids outdoors to learn the benefits of gardening and hard work.
Not only that, but it will teach your child responsibility and caring. They can even enjoy all the fruits, vegetables and herbs at harvest time!
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Step 1: Decide on the size and location of your garden. Smaller gardens make good garden beds. A larger garden will suit your yard better.
Step 2: Decide what type of vegetables, herbs or fruits you want to grow in your garden.
Step 3: Knock the grass into the soil where you want to start your garden (if you don't plan to build a raised garden bed). Then either use a hoe or a plow to break up the soil.
Step 4: Grow vegetables in your garden.
Step 5: Fence your garden to protect it from deer, rabbits and other pests. Watch your plants grow and enjoy the fruits of your children's labor!
# 5. Build a sunflower fort!
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time :30 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Season: Spring, early summer
Required materials
Sunflower seed
shovel
Watering can
Why your kids will love it:
Not only will your children enjoy planting sunflower seeds, but they will also enjoy watching them grow. Best of all, they can plant a fort out of sunflowers that they can play with all summer long.
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Step 1: After the last frost of the year, dig a 5-by-5-foot square spot in the garden or yard. You want the soil to be loose and not moist.
Step 2: Plant sunflower seeds at the edge of the square. This will form your fortress. Keep seeds 12 to 18 inches apart.
Step 3: Immediately cover the seeds with soil. Then water the seeds for 30 seconds.
Step 4: Continue to water the seeds two to three times a day for 30 seconds.
Step 5: Finally, watch your sunflower seeds grow and form a fort that your kids can play with all summer long. As an added bonus, they can eat sunflower seeds or feed them to birds!
# 6. Garden scavenger hunt
Age :5 years and older
Approximate completion time: 30-90 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Season: Spring, early summer, autumn
Required materials
A phone or tablet
Why your kids will love it:
Whether we want to admit it or not, kids are increasingly using smart devices. If your child is already using smart devices, then why not make their experience educational? Children will enjoy playing with their smart devices while being challenged to find different plants in the yard.
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Step 1: Have your child spend as much time as possible looking for 5-20 plants in the yard.
Step 2: When they find plants in the garden or yard, ask them to take a picture.
Step 3: When they're all done, you have an interesting job. You can guess all the plants they took from your yard and garden.
Step 4: If you want to change things up, you can also make picture cards for the kids to find and photograph in the yard and garden.
# 7. Make a butterfly feeder
Age: 3 years and older
Approximate completion time: 30 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Season: Spring, early summer
Required materials
Acrylic plate
Butterfly nectar
vase
sponge
Super strong glue
Why your kids will love it:
Children love butterflies. They will enjoy creating their own butterfly feeders to help them attract and watch butterflies throughout the summer. As an added bonus, you can help them understand all the types of butterflies they will attract and how best to attract them.
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Step 1: Superglue the back of the plate to the top of the open vase.
Step 2: If you want to decorate your plate, or simply place it in the area of the yard where you want butterflies. Butterflies like shady places!
Step 3: Break up a few sponges and put them in the butterfly feeder.
Step 4: Add the butterfly nectar mixture to the butterfly feeder (i.e. pour it on a plate)
Step 5: Your children will love watching the butterflies flock to the feeder all summer long.
# 8. Create a rainbow garden marker
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time :30 minutes
Location: Outside or inside
Season: Spring, early summer
Required materials
Stirring rod
brush
Acrylic paint and sealants
Fabric paint
Why your kids will love it:
Not only will your children enjoy drawing and designing their own sticks, but it's a great way to learn letters and words. Not only that, but it helps them get involved in gardening and learn about all the plants in your garden.
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Step 1: Apply as much paint as possible. Then let dry.
Step 2: Use fabric paint to mark your paint mixer stick. Let them dry for a few hours.
Step 3: Place the stick next to the plants you've marked.
Step 4: Store them in a dry, covered place after the gardening season is over. Or you can do it again the next gardening season.
# 9. Make your own watering can
Homemade watering can
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time :30 minutes
Location: Outdoors
Season: Spring, early summer
Required materials
An old milk or water gallon jug
Pen
Why your kids will love it:
Your child will enjoy this simple gardening activity. Not only that, but they'll love having their own watering can that they can take with them and use at all times.
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Step 1: Grab an empty milk jug or pitcher. A gallon jar works best, but if your child can't fit a gallon jar, you can always use a half-gallon jar.
Step 2: Poke 5-8 holes in the lid with a pen. Remember to keep the holes relatively small so that all the water doesn't run out of the jar.
Step 3: You have now created your watering can. Fill it with water, however much your child can hold.
Step 4: Water the garden and plants and watch your kids have fun!
# 10. Make Lego flower POTS
Age :3 years and older
Approximate completion time :30 minutes
Location: Indoor or outdoor
Season: Spring, early summer, autumn
Required materials
Legos
Potting soil
Succulent plant
Why your kids will love it:
Your children will love playing with their Legos and building a new home for their new plant. What your kids love most is that they can design their new pot to look whatever they want (as long as the succulents fit it).
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Step 1: Take out all the Legos you want to use. Put your Lego pieces into your favorite flower pot design.
Step 2: Place a piece of cardboard under your Lego flower pot.
Step 3: Place potting soil in your Lego pot.
Step 4: Place succulents in the soil and cover lightly.
Step 5: Place your Lego flower pot where your child can see it and take care of it.
Teach your children gardening skills
Gardening doesn't have to be time consuming, difficult or even expensive. This should be a fun and easy activity for you and your child.
Here are some tips to help make gardening easier and more enjoyable for you and your children.
- Find activities that your kids enjoy doing
In order to have a great gardening activity with your children, you should find something that interests them. Give them a selection of activities and let them choose one or two.
- Keep it simple
You don't need a complex or large gardening activity for your child to have the experience of a lifetime. To avoid frustration, keep your activities as fun as possible, keep your activities simple, and start no longer than 30 minutes.
- Do activities your kids can eat
If you want your children to enjoy gardening activities every year, then you should do something about eating. Find fruits, vegetables, and herbs that your child likes to eat.
- Are there activities enjoyed by all ages
If you have more than one child, it's important to find an activity that will be enjoyed by all ages. This will help reduce the children's frustration and also allow them to play together.
- Use the right gardening supplies
Look for gardening activities that you already have, are easy to find, or are cheap. This will allow you to spend less time and money searching for supplies and more time doing activities with your child.
conclusion
Gardening is a rewarding experience that provides education, food and a great hobby. But that's nothing compared to the memories you'll create when you do it with your children or grandchildren.
As mentioned above, all of the fun gardening activities listed in this article are easy, quick, and can be enjoyed by children of all ages. Best of all, these activities can be done under adult supervision.
