Lawn, Gardening & Pests Learning Activities

Get educational activities for youth made to encourage interacting with the world, and learn about lawn, gardening, and pests.

Be a Pollinator

This activity will teach you how to improve your garden’s bounty by hand-pollinating your squash plants.

Supplies to Be a Pollinator

Steps to Be a Pollinator

Build Your Own Worm Haven

This activity will walk you through the steps to building your very own worm paradise in detail.

Supplies for an Earth Worm Haven

Steps for an Earth Worm Haven

Other Considerations for your Earth Worm Haven

Garden Calendar Coloring Pages

Download coloring pages (PDF) from our Garden Calendar.

Apples

Tomatoes

Potatoes

Radishes & Turnips

Peppers

Asparagus

Melons

Germinate Your Own Seeds

If you think of the word plants, it can help you remember what is needed: Place, Light, Air, Nutrients, they get Thirsty and most of the time we plant them in Soil (PLANTS).

Supplies to Germinate Seeds

Steps to Germinate Seeds

How Plants Take Up Water

In this activity, we will learn more about how a plant takes up and moves water throughout its system.

Supplies to Measure How Plants Take Up Water

Steps to Measure How Plants Take Up Water

Observation Chart to Measure How Plants Take Up Water

Test Your Own Soil Sample

This activity will walk you through how to sample your soil and send it in to be tested.

Supplies to Test Soil

Steps to Test Soil

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