Are your kids interested in gardening? Or are you trying to get them interested in gardening? One way to get them interested is to do some garden arts and crafts with them. That’s what we are going to do now, get kids interested in gardening by creating crafts for the garden and including them in the process.
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Garden Arts and Crafts for Kids
Involving your kids in gardening is the best way to introduce them to gardening and getting them really interested in it. Gardening is a long-haul game, it is hard for kids to wait for something to grow before they get to enjoy the fruits (or vegetables) of their labor.
Fun garden stakes are just one of the ways you can get your kids interested in gardening. If your kids aren’t all that interested in the hard work, having them decorate garden stakes and putting them in place is just one of the ways to get them involved in the process.
Garden Arts and Crafts for Kids
Check out these adorable DIY plant markers to label the outdoor fruits and vegetables in your garden! Learn how to make these DIY plant markers and get ideas on how to create your own with garden river rocks, modge podge, and paint.
Learn how to make a clay pot lighthouse for your garden that also functions as a bird feeder.
A fun recycling/upcycling DIY project for the garden: DIY Duct Tape Milk Carton Garden Lanterns. Creates magical lights with supplies from around the house!
How to make chic gold and concrete succulent planters to bring a touch of green to your home.
Mark your vegetables, herbs, and flowers with homemade DIY Plant Markers made with polymer clay. This easy-to-make garden craft adds a bit of garden decor too!
Make this easy bird feeder with your preschoolers.
Want to learn how to make a fairy garden the easy way? This DIY fairy garden uses clay pots and takes only four steps! Get the fairy house how-to here.
Below I show you how to make a bird nest and food station using common items that can be found at home or locally.
Do your kids enjoy water play? Then try this cool DIY foil stream project in your backyard.
When it comes to fathers day gift ideas from kids, find the best dad rocks craft, this is one of my kid’s favorite things to make, daddy!
Teach your kids to grow their own food with an easy recycled container herb garden. Here’s how to make one.
Learn how to make customizable DIY herb markers for your garden. These easy garden markers are made using shrinky dink paper for lasting durability.
These fairy houses are just adorable and they couldn’t be easier to make. This project was all my 8-year-old daughter’s idea!
These DIY Buffalo Check Painted Pots are a gorgeous holiday decoration or handmade Christmas gift idea!
This Herb Garden for Cats was designed with my cat Peaches in mind. This rare kitty of mine can be a real stinker when it comes to eating my flowers.
Get ready to make your own DIY glass dish garden flowers a fun craft idea for older children or adults. This summer, freshen up your backyard with Dish Garden Flowers.
This is not a last-minute type project, unless you already have dried flowers on hand. If you need to dry flowers, plan on about two weeks of drying time in a flower press or heavy book. I always try to plan ahead and save enough flowers each spring and summer to use all year.
Fairy gardens are so easy to make. My girls were excited at the idea of creating and designing their own fairy gardens, and this is a fun project that you can be really creative with.
These DIY painted flower pots are so fun and colorful and would brighten up any patio or outdoor space!
I made DIY Garden Markers to help us keep track of all of the young plants we are preparing to plant. Sometimes plants can look similar in the young stages.
In honor of spring (or any other time of year you want to feel spring-ish), we’re making flower tinker trays.
Love gardening and the outdoors? These DIY Clay Seed Bombs make the perfect gift or the perfect thing to throw over any fence into an abandoned lot! It’s a wonderful way to spruce up the neighborhood!
Learn how to make Suncatcher Wind Chimes in this easy kids nature craft. It’s a fun and easy activity for spring.
Preschoolers can practice counting when adding their buttons to their flowers.
Try these adorable yarn-wrapped carrots with the free carrot template! Perfect for a preschool Easter craft or a preschool garden theme!
Do you need easy DIY ideas for your backyard garden? Learn how to make these easy Flower Pot Garden Markers.
This Himmeli Hanging Air Plant Holder is just one of the things you can make with the August Craft in Style Subscription Box!
Mini Greenhouse Gardening with Kids