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Mini Garden Activity

October 10, 2014 by OneMommy

Last year my daughter joined Girl Scouts, and I became the assistant leader for her Daisy troop.  

This year we are working on our journey patches, and we chose the Welcome to the Flower Garden patch to start the year off with because it does such a great job reviewing all those petals we earned last year.

I wanted to share with you the fun mini flower garden activity we created as part of our patch.   

It’s a fun craft that can teach preschoolers as well as those “big” kindergarten and first graders a little about responsibility.

You may also enjoy our  Mini Resurrection Garden.

gardening activity for preschoolers

Kids Mini Garden Activity

Materials Needed for Mini Garden:

  • Small Plastic Container with Lid (We used recycled food containers.)
  • Potting Soil
  • Grass Seed
  • Craft Foam Flowers
  • Small Beads
  • Toothpicks
  • Glue
  • Stickers (Optional.)
  • Copies of Girl Scout Promise (If doing this as an activity for Welcome to the Flower Garden patch.)

To save on the amount of soil each mini garden would need, I cut the plastic containers ahead of time to approximately 2 1/2 inches high.   I also used a nail and poked 3-4 drainage holes in the bottom of each container.

Once we were at the Daisy Girl Scout meeting, the girls took turns filling their containers half way with potting mix.

Then they sprinkled a handful of grass seed on top!

 

planting seeds for Welcome to the Flower Garden

 

Why grass seed?

The Watering Can award that goes on the journey’s patch focuses on the part of the Girl Scout law that says, “responsible for what I say and do.”

With our project the girls need to be responsible not only for watering their mini gardens, but also for keeping them nice looking by trimming the grass when it gets too tall.  (Much like the grass head craft we did at home.)

 

Once the girls had plenty of soil in their containers, they used pre-cut strips of colorful paper to cover the container’s outside.  On this they glued a copy of the Girl Scout promise, a required component of earning the award, and a great way to help refresh their memories after the long summer break!

They also added plenty of stickers to the outside of the container for decoration!

decorating mini flower garden

 

Finally, we added some colorful craft foam flowers to our garden.  After all, the journey is “Welcome to the Flower Garden!”

We made our flowers using craft foam flower shapes, toothpicks, and small beads.  For each flower the girls stuck a small green leaf onto the toothpick.  (Just poke the toothpick through carefully.)  Next they stuck on a flower shape, and finally they glued a small bead to the top to act as the center of the flower.

Before leaving the meeting the girls took turns using a small watering can to water their mini gardens.  They were reminded of their responsibility to take care of the garden by watering it weekly and trimming the grass as needed.

They were all very excited to show their parents their mini gardens at pick up time!

 

mini garden activity

 

This project is definitely one that could be done outside of Girl Scouts.  In fact, my son was asking to create his own mini garden once he saw his sister’s.  It is the perfect garden craft to celebrate spring.

You may also enjoy:

  • 20 Beautiful Flower Crafts for Kids
  • Beach-Themed Fairy Garden House 
  • Awesome Camp Crafts — Perfect for Scouts or Family Camping Trips

Filed Under: Kids Crafts Tagged With: flower craft, garden, spring, spring craft

Comments

  1. Susen @ Dabbling Momma says

    October 13, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    What a fun way to teach responsibility and to care for nature.

  2. Jill says

    October 19, 2014 at 11:27 pm

    This is an adorable idea for teaching children how delicate nature is.
    Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!

  3. Donna DM Yates says

    October 22, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    So cute and interesting. Love the decorations and the flowers.

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