Fun Activity Ideas
Farmers' Markets Are for Families
Learning continues as you shop for local fruits and vegetables.
We Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends
Exploring beneficial insects in the garden.
Throw a Garden Birthday Party
Ideas for invitations, decorations, activities, refreshments and favors.
Growing Food for Others
Donate part of your harvest to a local food pantry.
Light Up the House
Install indoor growlights for a jumpstart on the gardening season .
Seed Catalog Fun
Build gardening excitment with seed catalog activities.
Grow Your Own Salad Indoors
Grow salad greens inside during winter months.
Forcing Bulbs Indoors
Create a vision of spring indoors by forcing bulbs.
Planting Trees and Memories
Fall is the perfect time to plant trees and shrubs.
Making Memories with Kids: Garden Projects that Last
Leave a permanent mark in the garden.
Extending the Harvest
Ideas and techniques to extend the growing season.
Those Pesky Pests
Common insect pests you may find in your garden and organic controls to help reduce their impact.
Building a Lasagna Garden
Build a raised bed with layers of mulch, organic matter, kitchen scraps, and compost on top of the lawn or sod.
Growing the Healthiest Vegetables
The best vegetables to plant to get the biggest “bang for your nutrition buck.”
Going Green with Kids
Fun ideas to foster appreciation and respect for the environment.
Garbage-Can Gardening
Grow plants from items you’d normally throw away in the trash.
Potato Towers
A creative technique for growing potatoes.
Five Fun Plants with Cool Kid Appeal
Plants with intriquing characteristics.
Garden Journal
Children can record
their gardening discoveries
in
a personal
journal.
Digging Deeper
What do you want to know? Search our Classroom Stories, Activities,
All About Plants, and FAQs to find it:
Use
our Digging Deeper Search.
Increase your gardening
know-how
What makes leaves change color? Do plants "breathe?"
If your kids ask questions you can't answer, why not increase
your gardening know-how by taking one of our online gardening
courses? Our in-depth Botany
for Gardeners courses are divided
into four one-week explorations.
-lo.jpg)
Many other writings on kids’ gardening start
with what to grow and how to design and build a kids’ garden,
prepare soil, and plant, but this primer is not just
about creating one garden for your kids. It’s
about taking advantage of “gardening moments” with
your kids every week in your own yard ... and in the
garage, and at the windowsill, and in the basement ...