Botany and environment projects for children and youth.
Best
Gardening's Kids' Pages
Garden projects for kids who live in the Southern Hemisphere,
as this site is in New Zealand.
Bottle
Composting
Build a see-through compost pile in soda bottles. Easier to watch
what goes on than in a bigger compost pile.
Camp Internet
Global Garden Project
Understanding the Spring Equinox. Planting your spring garden.
Planting by phases of the moon and more.
Canadian
Gardening - Gardening with Kids
All sorts of projects and things to study while out in your
garden.
Children
in the garden
At the end of the day, (even though Mom had done 99% of the work...)
we would always stand back, together, to admire how beautiful
"OUR" garden looked!
Fibonacci
Numbers and Nature
Look at the Fibonacci numbers and why they appear in various
"family trees" and patterns of spirals of leaves and
seeds. Why does nature like using Phi in so many plants?
Flower
Pots With Ice Cream & "Dirt"
Perfect for that garden party when your garden is all in bloom
and you've invited your friends over to see, serve them this
treat!
Fun
Projects
Long list of project ideas for young people with what they can
do with their gardens and the plants produced there.
Gardener's
Companion
Young and Old Farmers alike enjoy this site, with roots back
to 1792. Linked to the Gardening for Beginners page.
Gardening
in Containers
With some creative thinking and recycled materials from baskets
to old shoes, kids can design special theme plantings, entice
butterflies and other insect visitors, or create products such
as hanging fragrance gardens or "patriotic" baskets
to sell or donate.
Great
Corn Adventure
Fun Flash site that will help you learn more about this abundant
food crop.
Growing
Bulbs
Fall is the time to get spring-blossoming bulbs in the ground.
You'll know for sure that spring has arrived when the bulbs turn
into flowers.
Grown
in Washington
A magazine for kids to help them learn about agri-business and
farm science.
Half-Barrel
Pond Garden
The barrel is lined with a black plastic liner. There are
presently seven largish goldfish, who have been resident since
the spring of 2001. This is of course too many for such
a small pond, but I'm not quite sure what to do with them.
Hotbeds
and Cold Frames 
Have some old windows around? Turn them into a hotbed or a cold
frame with directions here provided by the Purdue University
Cooperative Extension Service.
How
to Build a PVC Hoophouse
An unheated PVC hothouse can be a useful addition to the garden.
A young girl and her parent show you how easy it is.
How
To Grow A California Avocado House Plant
The seed of the avocado makes a lovely house plant. It will never
bear fruit. The leaves are poisonous, so keep this away from
pets and small children.
How
to Make a Butterfly Garden
Offer them flowers with the nectar they prefer, provide the females
with a place to lay eggs, puddles for drinking water, and warm
rocks on which to sun themselves.
The
Jug Heads
All it takes is a little water and sun to entice this family
to put down roots in your backyard.
Miniature
Garden for Children
How to make a little scene with living plants and toy house,
fences and toy animals.
Plant
Projects with Kids
Parents who want to develop kids' interest in gardening can begin
with some plant projects that are just plain fun.
Skippy
Terrarium
Best Foods recommends using an empty peanut butter jar to hold
a plant and some ladybugs.
Soda
Bottle Terrariums
Here's a fun messy project that will delight you for many days.
Spring
Garden Projects
The following four crafts were all designed with kids in mind,
emphasizing the fun of gardening, with drudgery strictly off-limits.
Stepping
Stones
This is an activity that is tons of fun and a great avenue for
creativity, but adult supervision is definitely needed.
Sweet Potato Vine NEW
Place the sweet potato in a container of water. Keep the top 1/3 of the potato exposed by placing toothpicks into the sides. The pointed end should be down in the water. In a few weeks a vine with several stems will begin to sprout.
The
Unencumbered Cucumber
The object here is to astound your friends with a little
horticultural sleight of hand. They'll be in a pickle wondering
how you managed to squeeze that great big vegetable through that
skinny little bottleneck.
The
Virtual Garden
Whether you're looking to design a new garden from scratch, or
simply want to take a fresh approach to re-designing an existing
garden, the virtual garden offers a user-friendly source of inspiration.
Window
Boxes
Plan out your window box with this interactive site. You'll then
knowhow it could look when you decide to build a real one.
Winter
Gardening Activities for Kids
Here are some ideas from the American Association of Nurserymen
to get you started thinking about indoor gardening projects for
your family, scout troop, or other youth group. I'm sure you'll
come up with others.
Dancing Flower Graphic from Sunny
Bunniezz flower page.