Garden Activities

Kids are fascinated with butterflies and learning about them can be a fun experience for them. These interesting insects are found all over the world...

Kids are fascinated with bugs. Encourage this fascination by teaching them about bugs in the back garden. Did you know that kids can learn just as...

Kids have a special fascination with birds so inviting them into the garden is a great way to teach children all about them. Besides making the...

Kids and gardening go hand in hand. They love dirt and digging. They love nature and being a part of something. But did you know that indoor...

Creating a centrepiece is a wonderful way for parents and children to spend time together and appreciate the materials that are available in their...

As parents one of the most difficult things we can try to do is to get our children to eat vegetables. Often vegetables are seen as anything but fun...

Some of us forget just how valuable a commodity wildlife can be to our gardens. Be they birds, worms, hedgehogs or spiders such wildlife in the...

It is a fact, which not everyone is aware of, that a bird can use up roughly ten per cent of its body weight trying to keep warm on a cold night...

For most kids, tadpoles are great favourites in the garden pond – and the chance to watch them go through their fascinating life cycle has lots of...

Scarecrows have been around for centuries originally as a means for farmers to protect their crops against attacks from harmful birds, such as crows....

There are so many different ways to help kids learn about leaves; however it always helps to collect some in order to do so. Leaf collecting is fun....

No matter how poor the soil in your garden is, amending it with compost will improve its overall quality. And healthy soil makes healthy plants....

Wormeries are nothing more than enclosed containers that house earthworms, which break down organic matter. Wormeries are easy to make, and the kids...

If you’re planning a kids’ garden it can be quite a challenge to get it right, especially if you don’t have a huge space to work with – so it pays...

What moves slow and lives in a shell? Hint: it’s not a turtle. It’s a snail. Nearly everyone has a snail or two lurking around the garden. In fact...

Taking Cues from Mother Nature Before technological resources were available, people used to rely on nature for predicting the weather. Share some...