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Introduction
Introduction
If you are lucky enough to have a garden, then why not use it? Get permission from your parents or carers before you do go digging. I wouldn't want anyone to get in trouble. Also watch out for any gas lines or electrical cables - I don't want to see you on the nine o'clock news for the wrong reasons!
Kids Gardening Website
Kids Gardening Website
Gardening with Children website
Gardening with Children website
Family friendly websites
Family friendly websites
RSPB Activities
RSPB Activities
Fun activities that are less than 2 hours. A particularly good activity is the bee hotel.
RHS Gardening for Kids
RHS Gardening for Kids
The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK's largest and most respected gardening charity. This link is specifically for encouraging young people to garden.
Rock Painting
Rock Painting
Rock painting is good fun. You'll need relatively flat, smooth rocks to do it though.
TIP - You'll need waterproof paints for this one (or to seal the rock afterwards with varnish)
Instructables - Birding
Instructables - Birding
This page will give you ideas for building a bird house.
YouTube Outdoor Creativity
YouTube Outdoor Creativity
Looking for mini-beasts and other worldly wonders in your back garden
Looking for mini-beasts and other worldly wonders in your back garden
Can't get outside at all?
Can't get outside at all?
Watch these lovely little time-lapse videos from the Woodland Trust.
Or watch these fungi grow from spores.
Or this spring flowers time-lapse by YouTube photgrapher, Neil Bromhall.
Or this video from the BBC about urban foxes (the kind that could be living in your street without you knowing about it).
Or these later winter snowdrops time-lapse, again by YouTube photgrapher, Neil Bromhall.
YouTube Gardening Advice
YouTube Gardening Advice
VegPlotter Software
VegPlotter Software
VegPlotter is an online application designed to help gardeners design and plan out their vegetable calendar. It makes it easy to work out what to seed, when to seed it, when to plant out and when to harvest. If you would like to have access to the software you can either fill out a form requesting your own account or students can access the CynffigTechnology account in-class at school. This free software comes highly recommended.
Gardening Calendar
Gardening Calendar
Cynffig Comprehensive is not affiliated with the Garden Superstore, an online gardening and landscaping centre and we do not receive any money from them! However they do have a nice, useful gardening calendar.
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