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DIY! Enjoy lots of DIY gardening projects and crafts with your family. These DIY activities feature unique garden upgrades and useful tips for gardening.
Do-it-yourself crafts and activities in and around the garden offer such a sense of accomplishment and make it fun to work together as a team.
We hope you enjoy our DIY projects for the garden!
From painted flower pots to custom seed packets, seashell plant labels, and beyond, you’re sure to find something to try right away or save for a rainy day.
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Butterflies, bees, and other pollinators are so important to our gardens and food supply. And there are little things we gardeners can do to help them, like making a pollinator water station. I happily attended the DIY Butterfly Puddler Workshop at Ken’s Gardens in Lancaster to make my own pollinator watering dish. This workshop brilliantly…
When growing seedlings indoors and later transplanting them, it’s so helpful to have large supply of garden tags on hand. You can quickly and easily make your own DIY plant tags for seedlings through the full lifecycle of your plants. Why do I need to use garden tags for plants? Garden tags make it easy…
Try this clever Mod Podge use to make expensive-looking flower pots! Start with pretty floral paper and transform an ordinary terracotta pot into something extraordinary. The vintage look and feel of this sweet mini flower pot has me by the heartstrings. I made this with my daughter as an after-school craft idea. We love making…
In a crazy stroke of luck, my daughters’ school district closed schools on my birthday due to the weather. In our area, it ended up being nothing more than rain so we decided to venture out for a fun activity – the Glick’s Greenhouse succulent potting party! We had such an amazing time at Glick’s,…
As a sentimental mom, I am all about the handprint crafts and doing fun holiday activities with my kids. A few years ago, we painted a handprint bunny Easter craft. This wooden Easter rabbit full of priceless handprints looks adorable in our home every spring. What I love most about handprint crafts is that quasi…
It’s no secret. I am a complete sucker for seashells and dogs, especially border collies like mine. So, my daughters and I decided to make seashell border collie magnets as a sweet way to celebrate our pup. This fun seashell craft is pretty easy with our step-by-step instructions and we know you’d love this, too!…
Whether for homeschooling, elementary school garden club, or just some fun at home, I’m excited to share some fun and free gardening printables! Any children’s gardening club, preschool, or other school / academy is free to use these gardening resources. All I ask is that you keep the logo with our site name on there…
Looking for a fun Valentine’s Day craft for my girls, we decided to make some DIY pen roses. The craft is quick, easy, and produces beautiful flower pens you can keep and use yourself or give as a gift to someone special. Truth be told, I was inspired to make these by my best friend’s…
Finally, I have another gardening craft activity to share with you! This year my girls and I had so much fun making homemade DIY succulent ornament planters. Dollar Tree empty plastic ornaments gave us the perfect start, while live succulent plugs made them special. This is MY kind of holiday craft, y’all! What could be…
Ugh, the winter! Why does it always feel like the growing season goes by way too quickly?! But not to fret – I’ve recently learned all about the winter sowing method and starting seeds in milk jugs during the winter, way before the last frost! Even if you don’t have your indoor growing stations set…