As it’s National Children’s Gardening Week from 27 May to 4 June, I thought I’d collate a few free gardening activities, colouring and wildlife sheets for you to keep your little ones happy whilst introducing them into gardening.

Free Gardening Activity Sheets

From HomemadeHeather.com this free pdf pack of gardening activities include:

• A scavenger hunt,
• Garden patterns,
• Counting garden tools and
• Colouring garden items.

Vegetable Dot to Dots – Free

This is a great collection of dot to dots vegetables from supercolouring.com

Fruit and Vegetables Nature Study Free Printables

This homeschooling free download from Homeschool Compass will help children understand different types of vegetables. There’s factsheets and flashcards.

Free Printable Vegetable Bingo

I am a subscriber to this blog’s email newsletter The Artisan Life and she emails lots of free downloads on many topics for children. I love playing bingo with my little one and this Vegetable Bingo is a highlight and perfect for learning all the vegetable words.

Free printable Matching Gardening Game

Another great game is matching pairs but this time with gardening tools and plant cards. This is a free download to setup for your child from The Artisan Life.

Wildlife craft activity ideas for children

This website Simply Full of Delight has a number of wildlife craft activity ideas incorporating ladybirds, bees, butterflies and caterpillars to engage in children’s curiosity and nature.

Animal Life Cycles – Free

Little Owl Resources is a website I use to print activities for all sorts of themes for children’s learning. They have a few free themes but it is not much to buy the premium feature for a year to gain access to all their themes. It is well worth the money.

The Life cycles of a frog, butterfly, hen, ant and runner bean are in the free resources and teach children how nature works.

Their sister site ColourCutStick also has excellent Free colouring sheets for nature and all themes, holidays, seasons etc.

3 Reasons for getting children into Gardening

• 1. Introduce growing food early in life, they will then know where food comes from and how to grow their own food.
• 2. There are a number of skills to learn when you are a gardener like concentration, achievement, dealing with disappointment, dexterity in trying to hold and sow the seeds, holding the trowel, learning how to care for plants and obviously the harvesting and eating is a big hit in our household.
• 3. Learning about nature is valuable and how we need bees, butterflies, ladybirds, worms, woodlouse, caterpillars, insects in our world to pollenate our plants and how worms and woodlouse help dig and condition the soil. This leads to respect for the world we live in.

More of My blog posts on Gardening with Children

• Growing Sunflowers with Children
• Growing Vegetables with Children
• How to get your child involved at a young age with gardening

Other Let’s Grow Together – Weekly Posts