Fun for tots in the garden

We’re all looking for things to do to keep our little ones entertained. Here’s a lovely collection of ideas of garden (or kitchen) activities!

✿ Make decorative animal or insect pebbles using pictures of your favourite garden animals to copy (e.g. ladybird). Weatherproof with PVA glue/varnish.

✿ Decorate plant pots or rocks for the rockery too! (try a wacky face)

✿ Go on a garden treasure hunt, looking for items on a list. Create your own list, or print off one of our treasure hunt sheets.

✿ If you have a pond, look for frog spawn.

✿ Hide the pegs, and let them find them as treasure.

✿ Sow vegetable seeds like carrots, radishes, peas & lettuce; sweetly scented sweet peas & colourful Nasturtiums in your own bed/plot in the garden.

✿ Sow herb seeds in small yoghurt pots and cover with a clear bag or cling film until they germinate. Position the pots in a light, warm place and water them regularly

✿ Grow cress eggmen in half an egg shell. Place a wad of cotton wool/kitchen towel in the half shell, put it in an egg cup & draw a face on (without hair). Saturate the wool/towel with tepid  water and sprinkle on cress seeds. Keep it moist, watering every day & watch it grow hair!

Article by Nursery & Garden Centre Owner Graham Jeffery Trevena Cross Nurseries, Breage, stocks a range of gardening goods for children, including welly boots and tools. For more information about the nursery & garden centre visit www.trevenacross.co.uk