Crafts4Kids grow your own garden is a great activity to get your children growing and we decided that Easter was the perfect time to get growing. Crafts4Kids is a website full of creative and educational gifts for all ages and has some very unique and exciting kits with everything you might need to both craft and experiment to your heart’s content.
Crafts4kids our grow my first ever garden kit RRP £14.99 comes with everything you need. The box with its drawn flowers contains a windowsill planter, crayons, soil, seeds, dibber, and labels. To get started simply remove the jacket and start personalizing your window box. With a line drawn flowers box to colour-in,keen artists will love this little garden. The boy was surprisingly keen to get colouring and got out a box of art supplies he had been given for Christmas. Usually reluctant to put coloured pen to paper I think being at home for two weeks meant anything new became fun! The only problem we had with this kit was the box was wobbly on its side and difficult to colour in but this wasn’t too much of a problem and we found that not leaning on it hard helped.
Next fill with the box with the soil provided (save a small amount to cover the seeds) and sow the seeds with the dibber. Choose from Nasturtium, Sunflower, Cosmos, and Cornflower, these easy to grow plants are ideal for kids as they are pretty much fail proof! At least I hoped they were as I have never been that good at growing anything from seed. It turns out however that the boy might have green fingers like his great Nan. Next label, water in and keep damp as they seeds take 14 – 21 days to germinate depending on the environment. Once your seedling have appeared you can choose to pot on, plant out or thin and grow in their window box.
We enjoyed looking at the different seeds, the shapes and sizes and the boy was fascinated by how different they all were. The grow your own garden window box looks bright and colourful on our kitchen window, and our seedlings took less than a week to pop their little heads out of the soil. We decided to have a guess at which would be first and the results were surprising as I was convinced that the sunflowers would win. I hope we have some beautiful flowers to plant out later in the year, now we just have to look after them.
Crafts4Kids have a great range of kits and toys for every age group. We loved our gardening kit, and would recommend this as a great different gift. With an easy to navigate website, drop downs you can choose an age range, interest or simply how much you want to spend. I have found some great kits for the boy who is really getting into experiments and science and will keep them in mind for his birthday later in the year.
If you would like the chance to grow your first ever flower garden then why not enter my competition below.
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My four are all growing sunflowers at the mo to see who can grow the tallest lol! At least it gets them nurturing and measuring! We have a greenhouse and grow a frew salad vegetables, including tomatoes, lettuce onion, cucumber and cress.
The kids love to plant potatoes- they enjoy digging them up!
we like planting herbs and sunflowers
We are currently growing sunflowers – trying to beat last years height 🙂
We also have some edible flowers growing too – not grown them or eaten them before but sounded interesting x
Edible flowers sound interesting! I might have to look for some of those, as they would be very pretty on a cake!
Sunflowers , we all try to grow them bigger than the fence, we had one with 2 heads a few years ago
Nasturtiums as they are so easy to plant from seed and they produce vigorous growth with bright flowers.
any type of vegetable at the minute. we are doing peas, broccoli, carrots and peppers 🙂
The kids have planted sunflowers in our garden to watch them grow
Tomato plants and cress.
we like to grow sunflowers
Carrots & peas. The kids love harvesting them
My boys have got potatoes, onions and lettuces growing at the moment
Strawberries
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my niece has no patience to watch these things grow… i’m hoping my nephew will fare better. 😉
Sunflowers!
We’ve never grown anything with Little Lady yet, she’s quite interesting in looking at the shoots that are appearing on our bulbs in the garden, so have actually been looking for something to do together. These look great.
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Anything and everything – but peas are their favourite (not that any of them make it into the kitchen!) Tx
My little boy and husband have just planted pumpkins, herbs, rocket, tomatoes and peas. My little boy absolutely loves gardening…:-)
Sunflowers and pansies
Potatoes and Carrots
carrots and peas
We love seeing who can grow the tallest sunflower and digging up potatoes
tomatoes, salad and radishes
We enjoyed growing strawberries and tomatoes last year. We’re going to try and branch out this year.
sunflowers and tomatos
At the moment we are growing Sunflowers and tomatoes
salad crops
sunflowers
We love putting pansies and begonias in pots for the summer.
Planting Sunflowers!
this would be just perfect for my granddaughter and I to do together
Looks like great fun? We just bought some planters for the garden, but this looks much more child friendly.
We’re actually going through a cress phase at the moment, it’s everywhere in the home!
We like to grow strawberries and tomatos
I like to grow herbs with my boy as they have such a wonderful smell and can be used for cooking too I think it fascinates him.
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just started to get garden sorted growing some strawberries for the littles age 8 and 6
Sunflowers are a must because of their size.
We grow loads of veg but I love growing sunflowers with my daughter
We really enjoyed planting sunflowers last year.
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sunflowers
Sunflowers, cress, tomatoes
My boys and I grow mixed wildflowers to encourage bumblebees to visit our garden.
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We’ve mainly grown cress so far! it would be good to branch out a bit
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sunflowers
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I think sunflowers are a big hit, Daddy P is winning this year’s contest already.
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We do love a contest, and might have to go for a sunflower growing contest this year!
Daffodils as we are welsh and they are beautiful!
Sweetcorn – easy to plant, delicious to eat. And poppies are fun to grow, you get to collect and dry them to plant the next year.
Tomatoes – they’re nice an easy x
My two boys love digging in the garden – they planted some flowers and herbs at the weekend and we are just getting ready for vegetables. I think this is a great idea to get children excited and involved x
Carrots and Peas and Potatoes
I would love to grow tomato plant.
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Big juicy red tomatoes & a single large sunflower
We plant strawberries and tomatoes and everyday my kids walk past and tell me how much they have grown!
We plant strawberries and tomatoes and every day my kids walk past and tell me how much they have grown!
Sunflowers & tomatoes
we’ve just done some cress with my girls they loved it so now going to progress to sunflowers =)
tomatoes
Our kids love helping to grow vegetables in our allotment
sunflowers
Sunflowers, they are quite easy to get on with and grow huge!
We love to grow giant pumpkins
Salad leaves and wildflower mixes (both really easy).
Sunflowers –
or the pips from apples xxx
we have started growing some peas & runner beans, would love to add some colourful flowers to our garden now x
Strawberries and wild flowers.
Cherry tomatoes as they love picking them as they ripen
We grow herbs and tomato plants, a favourite of the childrens (cough) and mine is egg heads with cress 🙂 fantastic
sunflowers
Sunflowers as they are really hardy and ideal for a 4 year old
Sunflowers and easy fruit and vegetables
We love growing sunflowers. each one is named to see whos grows the tallest.
Broad beans – really easy to grow, plus they grow really fast & plentiful so there’s lots for the kids to pick.
We love to grow sunflowers.
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Sunflowers
Strawberries tomatoes any thing that they can grow and eat, But all so some flowers for there beauty
SUN FLOWERS XX
Last year peas and strawberries, this year broad beans
We grow out own herbs, it’s more fun using things we have grown in our cooking.
tomatoes
we like to plant tomatoes and strawberries 🙂
Sunflowers and carrots
Tall sunflowers 🙂
Sunflowers and Sweet Peas
We are growing tomatoes, cucumber, peppers and chillis
Trees – I love trees … preferably fruit trees, but we are currently encouraging some small trees we’ve rescued and are taking up my made up box borders.
When they are ready to transport, we’re taking to plant in the fields and then we’ll start on the easy things like carrots, sunflowers and peas.
Herbs are easy too and a good way for kids to learn about fresh flavours.
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Herbs mostly! Basil and Coriander.
Sunflowers to see whos gets tallest
strawberry plants
A bean in a glass jar so we can watch it grow.
we are growing courgettes, cucumbers, runner beans, tomatoes and butternut squash
we have tomato plants and we like to grow sunflowers too, see whos gets the biggest 🙂 (which is never mine by the way lol)
Sunflowers, they love them because they grow fast and big
love growing plants with my kids – kids in school – the sooooooo enjoy it so much
Fruit and vegetables. It encourages an interest in food preparation too.
sunflowers and tomatoes,we have a competition with the grandparents!!!
Sunflowers
SUNFLOWERS
Sunflowers and pumpkins
Carrots 🙂
Sunflowers and this year we’re also growing herbs and potatoes, onions and radishes 🙂
Sunflowers, daffodils and I’ve also let my minded kids grown their own individual pots of grass for discovery play.
My children love cress and Tomatoes and sunflowers
we grow veg together
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We love to grow Sunflowers and see whose grows quickest!
In the short term cress and bean sprouts but to develop patience potatoes, carrots, beetroot and kidney beans 3:)
Sunflowers and tomatoes
This looks great! My two would love it and might actually be persuaded to keep looking after their plants! 🙂
we like to grow sunflowers
At the moment we are trying to grow sunflowers 🙂
We are having a go at corn this year!
My eldest has just started growing some salad and vegetables. She’s really got the growing bug but we’ve run out of room
Sunflowers.
Sunflowers and Potatoes
Sunflowers
Strawberries. x
We like growing Sunflowers 🙂
sunflowers, tomatoes and strawberries
Cress, it’s nice and easy and you see quick results and you can make it fun by growing it in egg shells & making funny faces with it as “hair”
Herbs and she has asked to plant flowers this year
We have grown carrots and pumpkins together which was fun.
Pumpkins and sunflowers
Sunflowers
My grandson has just turned 2 years old. We haven’t planted anything yet but he has shown an interest in flowers and plants. This would be a fabulous way to get him started! Personally I would love to plant some sunflowers with him and watch them grow 🙂
we are growing tomatoes & rocket at the mo 🙂
Pretty sure my little one just likes weeds, he keeps blowing some dandelion puff things haha!
pumpkins -great to know that they have grown their own for halloween
Sunflowers, they’re really easy to grow and kids are amazed by them 🙂
I like to plant bulbs with my son as they are easy to grow.
We’re currently growing sunflowers, plus lots of veggies for the allotment. If it involves soil, my little boy loves it!
vegetables 🙂
vegatebles and herbs
We are growing peas this year, very easy and great for the kids to pick
I’m growing sunflowers with my daughters in memory of their little friend who lost his battle with cancer last week.
Strawberries
Veggies 🙂
Thank you so much for running this competition. Kate is really excited to see what is in the Grow Your Own Garden activity pack and get her fingers dirty 🙂
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You are welcome, and now I just have the responsibility of trying to stop the slugs and snails from eating all out little seedlings!