Looking for some fun garden and nature crafts for kids? Here are lots of fun craft ideas for kids to make in and for the garden, as well as some nature arts and crafts.
Updated March 2025
We get so excited this time of year. It’s time to start gardening!
And along with planting flowers and vegetables and reading gardening books, we like to turn our creative energy toward the garden and our outdoor living spaces.
We make garden wish flags, bean pole trellises, stepping stones, weatherproof garlands, and other garden crafts and decorations.
Today, we are sharing some of our favorite garden crafts for kids and families, some of which have come from Jean’s book The Artful Year, and some that come from the blog!
Garden Crafts for Kids
1. Garden Wish Flags
We decorate these fabric flags with fabric markers or crayons and they carry our wishes and hopes for our garden and for the gardening season.
2. Beaded Bubble Wands
These DIY bubble wands made with pipe cleaners and beads are a fun kids’ craft project. Plus the finished bubble wands are beautiful and work great with our homemade bubble solution!
3. Grow a Bean Pole Trellis
We love growing pole beans up a bamboo frame and make one almost every year! The structure provides a fun fort before the beans start growing, too.
4. Make a Fairy Garden
Bring a little enchantment to your yard with a simple fairy garden! These are made with shallow planters so you can change things up with the seasons.
5. Make a Backyard Bunting
How to make a bunting using melted crayons that results in a stained-glass effect. This bunting is a beautiful addition to any porch or back yard!
6. Go on a Color Scavenger Hunt
Set up a color scavenger hunt for your kids, where they match items found in nature to paint chip colors. This fun and open-ended activity helps kids explore the colorful world around them.
7. Paint Rock Houses
Gather some rocks on a walk and head home to make these fun painted rock houses! Use them to create a little village in your garden or leave them in your neighbors’ garden as a sweet surprise!
8. Flower Flags
Flower pounding is such a fun process art activity for kids! Watch as the pigments from the flower transfer onto canvas to create these beautiful flower flags.
9. Beaded Garden Ornaments
This is one of our favorite garden decorations! Use beads, pipe cleaners, and dowels to make gorgeous garden ornaments that you will love looking at all spring and summer long!
Nature Crafts for Kids
If you need a break from the summer sun, here are some fun nature arts and crafts, so you can bring the garden inside!
10. Set Up an Invitation to Create Using Flowers
Set out some flowers, scissors, and jars and invite your kids to create their own flower arrangements using the tools you set out for them.
11. Make a Nature Collage
Create a beautiful nature collage by arranging flowers and leaves on cardboard. You can glue them on or use rubber bands for ephemeral art.
12. Make a Nature Mobile
Go for a nature walk and gather natural materials to use for this beautiful nature mobile. Painted air dry clay beads add the finishing touch!
13. Try a Nature Suncatcher
This flower suncatcher craft for kids uses nature’s palette (flowers and leaves) and sticky contact paper in the perfect circle frame. An easy summer craft and so beautiful!
14. Make a 3D Nature Suncatcher Box
Use a cardboard box, contact paper and items you find in nature to make a lovely creation with endless possibilities – it can be a 3D nature suncatcher, a flower petal art box, or a flower house for fairies and fireflies.
15. Do Some Flower Printing
Flower printing is a fun and beautiful nature art project for kids. And it can be done with just about any kind of paint!
16. Make a Fish Craft from Nature Items
Try this fun and easy fish craft by adding nature items like flower petals and leaves to our free fish printables.
We hope you try out these fun garden and nature activities with your family!
More Nature Crafts for Kids
- 22 Nature Art Ideas for Kids
- 13 Nature Walk Ideas (+ FREE Scavenger Hunt Printable)
- 5 Nature Art Ideas for Kids
- 5 Nature Based Play Ideas for Toddlers
- The Best Fun Backyard Ideas for Kids
- 30 Earth Day Activities for Kids
Want even more creative ideas?
Check out our Spring Creativity pack!
Let creativity blossom with this fun bundle of art activities perfect for Spring!! This 40-page printable eBook is full of coloring pages, drawing prompts, games, and more!
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