Gardening with kids is so rewarding! My daughters love being out in the garden with mom and seeing what we can grow together!
This site began as a way to chronicle our kids’ gardening adventures as well as my own as an amateur gardener. We’ve got big plans for a flower cutting garden, strawberry patch and so much more that our kids will love!
We hope you’ll follow along and share your own kids’ gardening adventures!
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…
School gardening clubs bring so many benefits to the kids – learning about plants, enjoying the fresh air, and being active among the top! If the weather doesn’t cooperate on your scheduled day, you can still find lots of rainy day activities for your school gardening club. Plan to meet in a classroom or multipurpose…
As a mom to two school-aged kids, I am always looking for fun things to do around the holidays. For St. Patrick’s Day, my girls made a cool clover / shamrock project – thumbprint four-leaf clover vases from old sauce jars we’d saved. Easily switched to shamrock vases if you prefer only 3 leaves, we…
Kids can learn so much from a tiny seed! Whether it’s home school or a local school garden club, gardening has a lot to bring to a child’s education. Try these school gardening club activities for winter, spring, summer, and fall gardening curriculum. If you help out with the elementary school garden club, you might…
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…
I love interesting Christmas traditions! Holiday crafts and activities that are personal to our family become so much more meaningful over the years. Our little family of four carries on a Christmas tradition that started with my husband’s grandfather. I remember Grandpop so proudly showing off his “Reindeer Garden” decorations one Christmas before we were…
Every time we go to the beach, we always come home with seashells. It’s peaceful and serene and relieves my stress to walk with my girls along the shoreline picking up shells. Now we finally have a use for them – seashell plant labels for outdoor garden beds! This garden craft works so well on…
Earth Day gives us as parents the perfect opportunity to teach our kids about our wonderful planet. It’s also a great time to make memories! Here are 20 things to do for Earth Day with a focus on outdoorsy fun. It’s always great to get kids involved in taking better care of our Earth. We…
For Earth Day, spend a little extra time focused on your garden! These Earth Day activities work well for kids and grownups of all ages, and they’re sure to stir up lots of memorable fun. Every year on April 22 we celebrate Earth Day. It’s the perfect time to make outdoorsy craft projects and talk…