50 Gardening Activities For The Kids
01/08/2014
There comes a point in each summer holidays when the kids get to that "I'm SO bored" moment. I find there are two ways to react to this - either find the largest cupboard in the house, shut the door and curl up in the foetal position waiting for it to pass, or reach for that list 'activities for the kids to keep them entertained'.
Below is a list of garden-based and outdoor activities, so if you're looking for a bit of inspiration this holiday, why not try some of these:
1. Hold a garden treasure hunt
2. Press flowers and make pressed flower bookmarks or placemats
3. Plant cress heads
4. Make garden spotting sheets
5. Play badminton or Frisbee
6. Cut and arrange some flowers
7. Go on a mini-beast hunt
8. Put double-sided sticky tape on some card and see how many nature colours the children can spot and collect on a walk outside
9. Plant herb pots
10. Make a mini garden
11. Make a tent from a clothes horse and sheet to set up your own camping site
12. Make a garden collage
13. Try some open air theatre - drag the dressing up box outside and let the kids put on a show
14. Make plant perfume
15. Harvest some fruit and veg for tea
16. Find some fairy gifts
17. Collect seeds and design and make your own seed packets
18. Grow carrot tops
19. Plan and build a garden for the kids
20. Have a picnic
21. Personalise the playhouse
22. Play 'Run Around'
23. Fill the paddling pool
24. Make a sand garden or sand pit
25. Make pressed flower soaps
26. Start a garden journal
27. Create jam jar night lights
28. Build a scarecrow
29. Play hide and seek
30. Make a nature walk booklet or go for an explore
31. Build a tree house
32. Make a bug hotel
33. Personalise your wellies
34. Jump in puddles
35. Write your name or draw a picture on a pumpkin
36. Use some bamboo canes, netting and prunings to make a camouflaged bird spotting den
37. Take the children out to choose their own autumn bulbs for planting
38. Worm counting
39. Blow some bubbles
40. Go bark rubbing?
41. Make 'magic mixtures' - sand, dirt, stones - add water and stir - it's disgusting but strangely compelling for the under 10's
42. Make a list for a scavenger hunt
43. Have a game of croquet
44. Create a stumpery
45. Devise an obstacle course
46. Sink a trampoline and watch them bounce
47. Climb a tree
48. Create a den
49. Have a water fight
50. Make a bird bath
Garden maintenance is important in the summer months, so keeping the lawn mowed or rotavating the soil in time to plant vegetables and crops are jobs to do. A well kept garden is just what the children need to make the most of their outdoor activities!
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