Garden Activities...
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Bringing Butterflies Into Your Garden
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...
Bugs in the Back Garden
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 much from watching...
Build a Bird House
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 garden an attractive...
Caring for Indoor Plants
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 gardening can be just as...
Creating A Table Centrepiece
Children who enjoy working in the garden will love seeing the fruits - or flowers as the case may be - of their labours be admired by the entire family. While it can be...
Encouraging Children's Gardening With an Allotment
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...
Encouraging Wildlife in Your Garden
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 right habitat can...
Helping Birds Survive the Winter
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 during winter....
How to Create a Frog Friendly Pond
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 educational value...
How to Make a Silly Scarecrow
Scarecrows have been around for centuries originally as a means for farmers to protect their crops against attacks from harmful birds, such as crows. But scarecrows...
Kids' Quiz: What Sort of Gardener Are You?
The word “gardening” covers such a lot of things. Planting flowers, ‘growing your own’ and looking after a pond – it’s all gardening, but it’s...
Leaf Collecting
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. It’s also a great...
Learning About, Making and Using Compost
What is Compost?
Compost is a dark, crumbly material similar to topsoil. Compost is made up of organic materials that break down into the soil,...
Making a Wormery
Worms are fascinating especially to kids. They are also an essential part of the environment, mixing up and breaking down organic matter. As they burrow deep into the...
Questionnaire: What Kind of Garden Do Your Kids Really Need?
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...
Snail Trail Hunt
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 garden snails feed on...
Weather Wise Gardening
Taking Cues from Mother Nature
Before technological resources were available, people used to rely on nature for predicting the weather. Share some of these common...
