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14 Garden Themed Activities Inspired by Books

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Summer time is the perfect to time to get out into the garden with your child and have some fun.  Here are 14 of our favorite garden themed activities to help your child grow their interest in gardening.

Garden Themed Activities for Kids from The Educators' Spin On It

Here are some of my favorites from Garden Week! 

Gardening Activities for Kids

  • Alphabet soup
  • Carrot playdough building
  • Edible watermelon seeds
  • Label your garden
  • Painted carrot snack
  • Painting flowers
  • Planting a seed
  • Rainbow fruit and veggie garden
  • Seed sort and count
  • Seed flower craft
  • Shape flower garden
  • Vegetable prints
  • Veggie sort and song
  • Garden Themed Yoga

It’s been a very busy week in the Virtual Book Club Summer Camp Session 2: Garden Week! 

I’m so thrilled to be hosting with Toddler Approved and Rainy Day Mum and sharing so many fun ideas together for our kid this summer.

If this has inspired you to jump into the Garden with your Kids we have tons of ideas to get you started! 

Check out our Kids in the Garden Posts  and be sure to follow our Gardening with Kids Pinterest Board

We’re thrilled to share that we’re also pinning great ideas when we see them to our Virtual Book Club Summer Camp Pinterest Board . We even had a Garden Week just for this past week.  

Keep checking as we create more ideas for our 

  • Bug Week
  • Garden Week
  • Water Week
  • Forest Week
  • Animal Week 
Tulip Flowers with yellow and orange held by a child's hand
Vegetables harvested from a backyard garden with kids

 Looking for more Gardening with Kids Resources.  CLICK HERE

Like this idea? Pin for later or share now with a friend!

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Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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