25 Gardening Activities for Preschoolers

This page is packed with Gardening Activities for Preschoolers and its full of fun ideas to get your children involved in planting, growing and learning activities related to gardening. You’ll find everything from making seed bombs, seed exploration, fairy gardens, bug houses, and more!

Preschool Garden Theme

Gardening Activities for Preschoolers

You’ll find perfect ideas for your preschool gardening theme.

Remember garden activities can be fun for all ages, but keep in mind their developmental levels. For younger children, you’ll want to keep their activities engaging and of course, hands-on activities are the best. Kids love to get in the dirt and participate.

Montessori Flower Activities and Lesson Plans

Garden Lesson Plans for Preschool

How to Make Seed Bombs – Easy Kid Made Seed Bombs Recipe

How to Make a Rainforest Terrarium with Kids

How to Make a Mason Bee Habitat

Marbled Pots Planting Craft

This garden project is fun and simple, plus the final results are gorgeous and bring beautiful colors to your average ceramic pot. It’s also a really cool painting marbling technique.

Life Cycle Printables and Activities

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Growing seeds indoors can provide you with delicious herbs, vegetables, and fruit. And it can also be a great conversation starter about where food comes from. This can lead to a preschool nutrition theme or farm theme.

Preschool Gardening Activities

1. Egg Shell Garden Science Experiment from schoolingamonkey.com
2. Plant A Salad With Your Toddler from momsandcrafters.com
3. Incredible Edible Herb Sensory Play from fantasticfunandlearning.com
4. Frog Habitat Garden from thecrafttrain.com
5. Counting Garden Preschool Learning Activity from kidsactivitiesblog.com
6. Sensory Bin Veggie Garden For Preschoolers from busymommymedia.com
7. Garden Soup from happyhooligans.ca
8. Spring Garden Fine Motor Sensory Activity from handsonaswegrow.com
9. Garden Word Cards from prekinders.com
10. Gardening Ideas Observation Journal from whereimaginationgrows.com
11. Spring Activities Cress Heads from redtedart.com
12. Using All Five Senses In The Garden from fantasticfunandlearning.com
13. Garden Printable Preschool And Kindergarten Pack from itsybitsyfun.com
14. Making A Play Garden from theimaginationtree.com
15. Colors And Numbers Flower Sensory Play For Preschoolers from lifeovercs.com
16. Measurement Garden Hands-On Math Activity from alittlepinchofperfect.com
17. Gardening Sensory Bin from frugalmomeh.com
18. How To Grow A Carrot Top from laughingkidslearn.com
19. Play Dough Garden Centre Pretend Play from theimaginationtree.com
20. Counting Seeds Gardening Sensory Bin from fantasticfunandlearning.com

Gardening Activities for Kids

Children learn from growing things and spending time in nature. These fun garden activities offer your children so many wonderful benefits.

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