Children will love watching seeds that they plant to grow. Some of the awesome gardening projects feature seeds that sprout quickly. Other gardening projects feature plants or seeds that will take a while to grow. If you are working on gardening at home or as a part of a long unit, you can select any of the projects below. If you plan to only explore plants for a short period of time, you will want to select the cress or grass projects.
Awesome Gardening Projects for Kids
It will be hard to decide which of these projects you can to do first. Since it can take a while for seeds to germinate, you may want to start a few of them at the same time. It will be fun to see which seeds sprout first.
Greenhouse or Container Projects
Egg carton greenhouses from Hazel and Company look like so much fun! Your children can plant a seed in each egg compartment and then cover the egg carton half with a plastic bag. Then they can wait to see which seeds sprout first.
Your children will be looking through the root observation window often if they help you create a root garden like What Do We Do All Day did. You can probably plant any type of seed or bulb in the container.
Plastic cup greenhouses like these from Mama.Papa.Bubba. are fun for children to create. Then they will be able to look into the top and watch their plants grow.
A paper plate greenhouse is fun for your children to create. Once your children have put it together, they will enjoy watching the seeds they place in it grow.
It will be fun to see what color of clear plastic egg will have its seed germinate first. We really enjoyed this STEM experiment at my house.
Gardening in Interesting Containers Projects
Growing Grass Heads like Red Ted Art would be loads of fun! Your children will have fun trimming the grass on their grass head!
Growing seeds without soil or hydroponic gardening will be fascinating for your children to see.
The STEM Laboratory sprout house project will be fun for your children to do. Once they have built their houses, they will have a great time watching sprouts grow on them.
Regrowing Fruits and Vegetable Projects
Did you know you can regrow lettuce from the core the lettuce? Educator’s Spin On It will walk you through how to do it.
A Gift of Curiosity was able to grow sprouts out of an ear of Indian corn. It will be so cool to try this with our kids.
After growing corn, celery, and lettuce, you could try growing a potato plant out of a potato as they did on the Kid’s Activities Blog.
Growing pumpkin seeds in a pumpkin is also a lot of fun. We have done this experiment several times.
Finally, your children can grow carrots from carrot tops in a plastic bottle greenhouse. When you set the greenhouse outside or by a sunny window, it will be easy to see the condensation inside the bottle.
Building Background
Before you start any of the projects, you may want to read your children some children’s books with a gardening theme. You will find some of my favorites below.
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Gardening Tools You Will Love
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If you like these science activities, here are some more you will love.
You may notice that each of these has a spring theme. After you start a gardening project, you can explore one of these spring STEM activities.
Building a Trampoline for Peter Rabbit
Creating Plastic Egg Parachutes
Building a Fence to Keep Peter Rabbit out of the Garden
