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Play with plants using these fun summer gardening activities! Spend summer afternoons making desert terrariums, decorating clay pots, and growing herbal teas with your child.
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Play with Plants
Play with plants using these fun summer gardening activities! Spend summer afternoons making desert terrariums, decorating clay pots, and growing herbal teas with your child.
Play With Plants Checklist
Download Worksheet More infoGet ready to grow excitement with plants-themed activities! Use this handy checklist to keep track of supplies and activities for week 2 of DIY summer camp.
Insectivorous Terrarium
View Full ActivityBoys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.
Parts of a Plant Activity
Download Worksheet More infoTeach your little one a few new sight words that are all about household items. This activity will help her learn the different parts of a plant.
Grow a Sock Garden
View Full ActivityIn this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.
Plant Matters: How Plants Travel
Download Worksheet More infoPlants may not have feet, but they do move! Help your child learn different ways seeds travel.
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Indoor Gardening with Kitchen Waste
View Full ActivityGrow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.
Potato Maze: Make a Plant Obstacle Course!
View Full ActivityThis experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.
How to Grow an Avocado Plant
View Full ActivityLearn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.
Planting a Garden
Download Worksheet More infoLittle botanists will enjoy planting their own garden with this earth science worksheet! She'll color, cut, and plant her own fruits with this fun activity.
Tea Garden
View Full ActivityHelp your child plant a âtea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.
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Kokedama
View Full ActivityIn this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."
Painting Clay Flower Pots
View Full ActivityCreate a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.
What Do Plants Need?
Download Worksheet More infoWhat exactly do plants need to survive: honey, bear, donuts, or air? Your first grader will contemplate these questions and more, with this adorable worksheet.
Indoor Herb Garden
View Full ActivityPlant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.
Make a Desktop Desert Terrarium
View Full ActivityUsing a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.
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