6 Plant Themed Activities To Keep Your Kid Busy Indoors

While staying indoors, especially for kids, can get insanely boring in these times, it can also be used to your advantage by getting your kids into gardening and teaching them about plants. Try out these plant themed activities and watch how your kid immediately ditches the TV and rushes to do something different and creative! These activities have curriculum links to science and can be a great learning opportunity to discuss how things grow and lifecycles.

Eggshell Seed Starter

The kids can get started on something that’s almost guaranteed to be in the fridge- eggs! Eggshells serve as a great fertilizer for plants, and are ridiculously easy to work with. Nearly all garden vegetables that you can think of will grow in eggshells. Simple ones like basil and parsley can keep growing while squash and cucumber can be transplanted after a week of sprouting.

Happy Pot

Instead of planting seeds in bland, mono-colored pots, let your little Picassos give it an artistic twist by letting them paint the pots first! This makes them more interested in planting flowers in those pots and also gives your garden a different look. Amazon have some great sets including Terracota Flower Pots for under £10.

Simple Greenhouse

Greenhouses are a wonderful learning opportunity not only about gardening but also about the environmental effects that happen on earth, teaching them about science in a fun way! Needing just 2 cups, a soil, seeds and some tape, it’s dead simple and can be done anywhere.

Colorful Tin Can Garden

If you don’t have a pot handy for the kids to paint and grow flowers in, a tin can serves as an easier alternative. You might have to supervise a bit if the can is sharper at the end but for the most part, it’s safe. It can house most of the garden variety plants and flowers, but the latter gives it a much better feel when combined with the colorful tin cans. You can also stack these on a pole to make it look even better!

Fairy Gardens

We also think making a Fairy Garden is a great way to get children enjoying plants. Children will enjoy setting up their fairy garden, it encompasses crafting and also learning about plant life.

Plant Pictionary

Even as adults, we always prefer learning through media be it video or pictures rather than a wall of text. Let your little one have some fun when learning by creating a plant pictionary. There are various ways to go about this: They can create a pictionary that focuses on parts of the plant or one that focuses on different categories of plants.

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