With the last frost due later this month, it's time to get the gardening season off to a start with the kids. We have a brand new garden and as we ...
Growing and gardening
"To plant a garden
is to believe in tomorrow"
Audrey Hepburn
From the smallest jar to the largest space there is hope where you plant a seed. Grow your own food, enjoy the family garden or cultivate your herbs for cooking.
Grow a Garden Salad
We are loving our Garden Week for Storybook Summer this year so many fantastic ideas and today is no different, we have a guide on Growing Salad with ...
Gift ideas for Kids with Green Fingers
One of the best ways to encourage kids to eat their vegetables and try new food is for them to grow it themselves and then cooking and baking with ...
Whimsical Beaded Garden Ornaments
It is almost impossible to walk through a garden and not feel joyful. From the colourful flowers dancing on the breeze to the delightful ...
DIY Flag Garden Markers
I love watching kids in the garden. They get so excited by the whole process -- digging in the dirt (of course!), planting seeds, investigating them ...
Roald Dahl Inspired Decorated Minpins Pots
This week on storybook summer we're heading off to the woodland for a week of activities, crafts and fun all around books based in the woods and ...
What to plant to attract Ladybugs
It's one of the easiest recognisable bugs for kids - the Ladybird/Ladybug and it's great for us gardeners as well so we want to encourage them to come ...
Growing Pumpkins from Seed
Yes we are definitely getting out in the garden and starting off seeds at the moment - you may have seen our getting tomatoes started indoors post as ...
Growing Carrots from Seeds
The garden is warming up and we've started planting out in the beds. Some carrots seem a perfect idea as both of my kids will eat them so with 2 ...
DIY Nest Box – wildlife gardening with kids
The birds are busy in our garden collecting sticks, moss and old feathers to build and line their nests and have been since later February early March ...
Growing Heinz Tomato Ketchup – Getting Started
If you are a regular reader you will have seen that we've recently geared up for gardening season. I've shared a fantastic list of quick growing ...
Planting a Rainbow
One of our favourite Gardening Books is Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert and this time of the year it gets brought out and we explore the ...
Egg Carton Seed Trays
A quick and easy growing project for kids to do - we like using our junk modelling box for many different project and a lot of the materials are ...
Growing Activities and Crafts
With Spring in the air and the clocks gone forward we're spending more and more time outside and that means growing things so from last weeks Tuesday ...
Gardening with Kids – Starting off seeds
With last week seeing the official start of Spring our gardening and growing season has moved into full spring and we're starting off some seeds. When ...
Wildlife Gardening – Log Pile Home
Wildlife gardening with our kids is one of our main aims for getting outdoors at the moment. As many of the animals that we are encouraging are ...
Garden Book Based Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers
We love being inspired by books and creating our own activities and crafts based on them aimed at Toddlers and Preschoolers here at Rainy Day Mum. One ...
10 Gardening Activities for Tots
The sun is shining and the back door gets flung open. Across Tuesday Tots the range of activities is changing from indoor activities to fun outdoor ...
Grow your own tomatoes with Heinz Tomato Ketchup!
Do your kids love Heinz Tomato Ketchup as much as mine do - so having the opportunity to grow your own tomatoes with Heinz Tomato Ketchup is ...
Exploring the Garden with babies – Garden, Flower, plant link party
We spend time in the garden come rain or shine and one of the things that I take time to do is explore and look at the plants and flowers with T and ...
April Virtual Book Club – The Carrot Seed
WOHO it's back - the virtual book club with Toddler Approved. This months book is The Carrot Seed. I had it as one of our garden books last week and J ...