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10 fun garden activities for kids

Q: What are fun garden activities for kids?

Fun garden activities for kids include growing a bean in a bag taped to a window, a garden scavenger hunt, a sunflower height chart, pressed flower art, a taste test, painting a pot, building a worm hotel, regrowing kitchen scraps, garden bingo, and designing a paper garden. Each one is quick, hands-on, and works for ages 3 to 10. All ten are in the printable Activity Pack.

Q: What garden activities can kids do indoors?

Indoor garden activities include growing a seed in a bag on a window, regrowing kitchen scraps like green onions and lettuce, a blindfold taste test, and designing a paper garden with cut-out plant stickers. None of them need a yard.

Q: What is a good first gardening activity for a young child?

Seed in a Bag is the best first activity. A bean seed in a damp paper towel inside a zip bag sprouts roots within days, so a young child sees fast results with almost no mess. It costs nothing and works on any sunny window.

Quick, hands-on things to do in the dirt (or on a windowsill), for ages 3 to 10. Every activity comes in the printable Activity Pack, in the full Sprouts style.

Tap any card for the how-to. Filter by where you are and how much mess you can handle.

Want all ten in one polished pack?

The Sprouts Garden Activity Pack collects all ten activities plus a cover in one print-ready PDF, in the full Sprouts style.

Printable guides coming soon at getgooddirt.etsy.com.

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What are fun garden activities for kids?

The ten on this page: seed in a bag, a scavenger hunt, a sunflower height chart, pressed flower art, a taste test, paint a pot, a worm hotel, regrowing kitchen scraps, garden bingo, and designing a paper garden. Each is quick, hands-on, and works for ages 3 to 10.

What garden activities can kids do indoors?

Seed in a bag on a window, regrowing kitchen scraps like green onions and lettuce, a blindfold taste test, and designing a paper garden. None of them need a yard.

What is a good first gardening activity for a young child?

Seed in a Bag. A bean in a damp paper towel inside a zip bag sprouts within days, so a young child gets fast results with almost no mess, for free, on any sunny window.