Simple garden activities can help children slow down, notice nature, and enjoy screen-free time outdoors. Whether you have a backyard, courtyard, balcony, or a few pots near a sunny window, gardening gives children a gentle way to draw, observe, plant, and connect with the natural world.

1. Draw Your Dream Garden

Let children sketch where they would place flowers, vegetables, paths, butterflies, trees, or a quiet sitting spot.

2. Create a Plant Profile

Choose one plant and write down its name, what it needs, how much water it likes, and what it looks like.

3. Start a Seed Growing Tracker

Plant a seed in a pot and track when it sprouts, how it changes, and what the child notices each week.

4. Make a Garden Photo Page

Take photos of flowers, herbs, seedlings, bugs, leaves, or garden progress and add them to a printable page.

5. Find Where the Sun Shines

Look around the garden in the morning and afternoon to see which spots are sunny, shady, or partly shaded.

6. Keep Garden Notes and Doodles

Let children draw leaves, flowers, birds, bugs, garden tools, or anything they noticed outside.

7. Make a Plant Wish List

Ask children what they would love to grow next — flowers, strawberries, carrots, herbs, or colourful plants.

Want these activities ready to print?

The Kids Garden Discovery Pack includes 8 printable garden activity pages for little gardeners, including a plant profile, dream garden planner, seed growing tracker, garden photo page, sunlight tracker and garden notes page.

Shop the Kids Garden Discovery Pack in the LivingWell 101 shop.

Shop the Kids Garden Discovery Pack in the LivingWell 101 shop.