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Gardening Lab for Kids   has 52 fun experimentation to learn , grow , crop , make , play , and enjoy your garden .

How to make rain barrelsis one of the projects in the book .

Pollinator station in children’s garden.

Creative Gardening Projects for Kids

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These mental image are used with permit from Quarry Books who also provided a review article copy of this book . photo by Dave Brown .

The record has pedagogy for52 projectsplus musical theme for ‘ digging deeper ’ .

Insect hotel, rain barrel, bird feeder.

If you have kids , grandkids , homeschoolers , unschoolers , camping bus , or scholar and want creative outdoor projects , this book is pack with capital ideas . I do n’t have little kids at dwelling now but I still find a gang of projects I want to make as well .

Consider it a bang-up imagination for nature nuts ( or tyke who just take a little nudge ) who just desire to get outdoors and do fun stuff .

If you want to see a selection from the book , have a looking at atthis DIY rainwater barrel projection . Good for those who wish building and art .

Gardening Lab For Kids: 52 Fun Experiments book.

The list below shows some of the undertaking you will find in the Word plus links to related projects here on Empress of Dirt .

1Make A Bird Feeder

What a great way to start a kinship with the garden : make a hiss tributary and see who comes to confab ! Some kids who have never had the chance to really play in the mud and watch insects can be really squeamish about getting outside and exploring . A bird affluent can bridge that gap as they see the direct cause and effect : Hey , I put out that bird come and appear who came to visit us !

Other fowl - related tutorial

2Seeds In A Bag

How beautiful is this ? This undertaking is a great way to see not only the new growth that would be above the soil , but what go on underground . Very cool .

My best tips for starting source indoors are here :

More idea for Kids

Homemade bird feeder.

35 Playful & Practical Garden Ideas for KidsSow , develop , garden prowess & crafts , and outdoor imaginary manoeuvre .

3Rock Bugs

A fun idea for the crafty kids : research various microbe , paint your own , and then expose them or make for with them in the garden .

I have two rock and rock painting tutorials :

4Pollinator Palace

I know how bug hotel / pollinator palaces have become so popular latterly , combining funky garden graphics with the intention of attracting a variety of wee waste things .

More on wildlife houses :

5Rain Barrel

Food degree containers can be transformed into function rain barrels with some plumbing supplies .

The tutorial is here :

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I would have loved a Christian Bible like this when I was a kid and I found stack of projects I need to make now .

~Melissathe Empress of Dirt ♛

Sprouting seed in bag.

DIY rock bugs

Pollinator palace.

DIY painted rain barrel.