If you are passionate about gardening and nature, chances are thatyou want your kids to get passionate about it, too. After all, gardeningencourages physical exercise, it’s fun, and it teaches a lot of lifelessons. If you try to force it or make it a chore, however, those kidswill balk fast. Enter the 10 garden activities to do with kids. When kids are outdoors and involved in something, they are muchmore likely to stick with it than they would if you simply decided tomake them weed the vegetable garden. Hey, we can’t blame them; wedon’t want to weed our own vegetable gardens. But find cool things todo in the backyard? We're in!

10 Garden ActivitiesTo Do With Kids

Cultivate a love of gardening in kids of all ages with garden activitiesfor kids that you can do at home.  Here are some fun ways to defeatboredom with enriching activities that will inspire little gardenerseverywhere.

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PIZZA GARDEN

Pizza LoversIf you have pizza lovers inthe house, why not plant apizza garden! This is a great way tointroduce gardening tochildren.

Steps on Growing a Pizza GardenSection off a small parcel of garden space for the pizza gardenGrab some containers and plant all of the fixings for a perfectpizza.Nurture the seeds and watch them grow. Then, come harvest time, you can have a family pizza-makingparty made with fresh ingredients from the garden.

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RecommendedPizza Garden PlantsSome suggested essential seedsto plant in your pizza gardeninclude:

BasilOregano ParsleyTomatoes

OnionsGarlicPeppers

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T H I N G S T O F I N D

N A M E T H E B U G S N A M E T H E P L A N T S

N A M E T H E P O L L I N A T O R S

SCAVENGER HUNT

Touch Something Soft

Smell a Flower

Water a Plant

Touch Something Rough

Chase a Butterfly

Pick a Ripe Vegetable

Make a Pile of Leaves

Pick Some Weeds

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You’ll need a piece of paper and a pencil for each child, along with achecklist of things to find. Walk your outdoor space to make your list.

*Use our resource page to find ideas to add to your scavenger hunt.

Lean your garden poles toward eachother so that they are evenly spread atthe base and bundled together at the top.Use your twine to bind the poles togetherat the peak firmly.Settle the base of the poles into theground and pack some additional soilaround the bases of each pole to securethem in the soil.If you’d like a more secluded enclosure,wrap the remaining twine between thepoles at intervals of approximately onefoot. This will give the growing vinessupport and provide the tendrilssomething to latch onto.Plant 3-4 seeds at the base of each poleand watch them grow and cover theteepee structure.

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4-6 gardenpoles/ stakesthat are at least6 feet in lengthTwineGarden SoilPole BeansLarge rock orstump to sit on

HOW TO BUILD IT YOU WILL NEED

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CREATE A Garden Teepee

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Sprinkle a few seeds of grass into the footof a nylon stocking.

Fill the nylon stocking with a cup ofpotting soil and tie off at the end of the soilball.

You can use permanent markers to draw aface on the nylon and then place the ballat the top of a cup or glass so that it restson top of the rim.

Water the soil ball regularly.

Soon your grass head friend will sprout alovely head of year for you to let grow ortrim as you please.

GARDEN ARTPaint Garden Rocks for Plant Markers

Gather smooth stones fromaround the yard.

Use water based acrylic paint topaint them to look like thevegetables that you plan ongrowing in your garden! 

Use them as plant markers inyour vegetable garden.

Make a Grass Head Friend

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Cut off the base of your vegetable

Put it in a bowl with a small amount of

warm water and place that in direct

sunlight. Change out water as needed.

Within a week, leaves should appear &

thicken at the base.

Did you know you can regrow some of your favorite food from bits that we would normally throw

away? Garden activities for kids can go from table to garden and back to table again.

Bean Sprouts

Carrots

Celery

Lettuce

Onions

REGROW KITCHEN SCRAPS

WHAT CAN YOU REGROW? HOW DO YOU DO IT?

Apples

Avocado

Cherries

Peaches

Tomatoes

Garlic

Ginger

Pineapple

Potatoes

Sweet Potato

For most seeds, remove, then dry the

seed and plant in soil.

Avocados, wash the seed after you

remove it. Using toothpicks or other

support material, balance the seed over

a jar or bowl of water.

Regrow from plant parts

Regrow from seed

Regrow old food

Take a piece of ginger with buds on it

and plant it, buds facing up.

Plant potatoes that are beginning to

sprout (whitish shoots).

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regrowing each fruit and vegetable.

Save your egg crates and cracked eggshells and create a little starter herbgarden!  Add some potting mix to each of the eggshell halves and plant some seeds inthe soil and water them. Place in a sunny spot, and before you know it, you will have fragrant andtasty herbs flourishing. Plant the seedlings in a bigger container or out in the garden as they growbigger.

Garden activities for kids can start in the kitchen. Did you know that brokeneggshells can make great seed starting pods?

Choose a glass container.Place rocks at the bottom of thecontainer. Soak dried sphagnum or sheet mossin water for a few seconds andsqueeze out any excess liquid. Using a funnel fill the container withseveral inches of soil. Add your plants.

Mini GARDENS

Create a Terrarium

Make a Mini Herb Garden out of Eggshells

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Cut the top portion of a two-liter soda bottleoff.Alternate adding a couple of inches of soil with athin layer of light sand. Repeat this layering process until the soil reaches acouple of inches from the top.Find a couple of earthworms in your garden andcarefully place them in your soil-filled bottle.Cover the open end of the bottle with plastic wrapand poke some holes in the wrap.Each day, remove the plastic wrap and add a coupleof tablespoons of water to the soil and replace thecover.Watch for changes in the soil composition over thenext two weeks. You should see a mixing of the layersand worm tunnels that facilitated it.Carefully return the worms and the soil contents tothe garden bed.

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TWO-LITER SODABOTTLE

EARTHWORMS

PLASTIC WRAP

WATER

Dive into some soil science and create a wormery which will allow you to watch how wiggly

worms penetrate the soil, mix things up, and help things grow.

CREATE A WORMERY

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HOW TO BUILD IT

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*Use our resource page for detailed

information on worm composting.

It’s never too early to teach children about the importance of protectingour Earth and doing our part to reduce climate change. Starting your owncompost pile is a great place to start.  All that you need to get started are some kitchen scraps and a corner ofthe yard that is unoccupied. Children will be fascinated that they canturn items we normally throw away into treasure, and your garden willbe happier for it.

K I T C H E N S C R A P S

Create a Compost Pile

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*Use our resource page for detailed information on how to start a compost pile.

RESOURCES

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How to Start a Compost PileWorm CompostingThe Importance of Garden Worms

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Kid's Garden Scavenger Hunt Ideas