Gardening Club Spring Activity Pack

How Can I Use These Gardening Club Worksheets?

These Gardening Club Worksheets are bursting with fantastic project ideas and detailed instructions you can use to guide and structure your gardening club.

Once you've downloaded the pack you'll find a total of 6 gardening club worksheets, each one containing a handy lesson plan. The gardening skills and topics covered include:

• Cleaning Plant Pots - Teach children how they can clean and reuse old plant pots to get ready for a new garden project.
• Making Cloches - Teach children how they can make their own cloches using empty milk cartons.
• Planting Soft Fruit - This worksheet is great for teaching children how to plant delicious raspberries, currants, and gooseberries.
• Seed Storage Box - An ideal activity for if it's too wet outside to get out into the garden; creating and organising your own seed storage boxes.
• Sowing Peas - Teach children how they can grow peas indoors using pieces of guttering.
• Wind Chime - Another fantastic rainy day activity; making an attractive wind chime to help keep unwanted birds from disturbing your gardening area.

Each of these Gardening Club Worksheets comes complete with tips for how you can link your gardening projects to National Curriculum aims. This means that your gardening club can benefit children's academic performance as well as their mental health and wellbeing.

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More Great Gardening Activities to Try with Your Children!

Here at Twinkl, we're big believers that gardening is a brilliant way to keep children active, curious, and happy. That's why we've been hard at work putting together resources to help with your gardening club, like these Gardening Club Worksheets. 

If you'd like to discover a few more, here are some of our favourites:

• Clothes for Gardening Worksheet
• Sowing Schedule Crop Calendar
• Garden Scene Labelling Worksheet
• Make A Bird Feeder Worksheet
• Plant Growth Sequencing Activity

What Are Cloches?

A cloche is a cover that is used to protect young plants from frosts. As part of your Gardening Club activities children can use a rainy day in early spring to get ready for seed planting by making their own cloches from empty plastic bottles. 

Children could also use their cloches to warm the soil so that they can plant seeds earlier. To do this they just have to place their cloches over the soil for two to three weeks before planting their seeds.

This allows the seeds benefit from a longer growing season, meaning that there's more opportunity for plants to flourish.

You can find out more about what a cloche is and how to make one in one of our gardening club worksheets.