We have been spending a couple of hours with the kids on the allotment every week, attempting to get it up to scratch for the growing season. The only problem with spending time at the allotment is entertaining the boys while I work around the plot.
Of course I try and get the kids involved with planting seeds and digging. But when the beds are overgrown and a lot of hard work is needed, you just need to keep the children busy!
So here are our allotment ideas for kids, keeping them occupied at the allotment.
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Entertaining The Kids On The Allotment
Bring Toy Vehicles
Bring along their diggers and dumpers to play in the unplanted areas. If everything is planted then perhaps dig up a small area for them to play in without destroying the fruit and vegetables! Or even bring a small sand pit for them to play with their toys in?
Bug Hunting
Searching for bugs is always fun for our children. The two year old loves insects, but has a particular love for worms. He’ll happily stand next to me patiently waiting for me to dig up more worms to look at! My only worry is that he might squash them or try and eat them, but so far so good.
Painting
Bring paper and paints, or forget the paper and let them go wild painting the fence, stones and wooden boards. It will get washed off by the next rain anyway! We have reusable Doddble bags with paintbrush attachment that are fantastic for taking on trips for painting.
Scavenger Hunt
Depending on the size of your plot you can send the little ones on a scavenger hunt around the plot or around the allotment. You can easily make your own up with pictures of things to find, smaller ones can look for different coloured things.
Nature Bracelet
A nature bracelet lets kids add interesting pieces of nature to their wrist. Some children can spend hours finding the perfect piece to add to their bracelet and love it just as much as a real bracelet! It’s simple to make, just wrap masking tape around your child’s wrist with the sticky side facing up. Watch your little one go off and stick leaves, flowers and sticks to their new fashion accessory.
You might want to tell them not to attach living animals (no beetles!!) or anything growing in the allotment!
How do you entertain your kids at the allotment?
Plutonium Sox says
These are brilliant ideas! We don’t have an allotment at the moment but my girls have finally reached an age where they can just run around outside and keep each other entertained without any input from us. I hope to get a vegetable patch of some description over the next couple of years.
Nat.x
Sarah - Craft Invaders says
Love these ideas – the diggers look like they have found themselves plenty of earth to move, and I love the wild painting idea – later in the year you could make ‘paint’ out of berry juice 🙂
Annette, 3 Little Buttons says
Lots of lovely ideas. I really like the idea of making a nature bracelet, I think this would be something that Little Button would have loads of fun doing. It’s really inspiring to see your little ones having fun in your allotment. #HowtoSunday
Our Cherry Tree says
These are great ideas! I don’t have an allotment but we’ll be doing a lot of work in the garden over the next few weeks and these activities are just brilliant. Thank you! #howtosundays
Lauren (The Helpful Hiker) says
Loves these ideas! I plan to get our garden into shape this year and also plant a few bits. I shall be using some of these methods to keep Finn entertained. Particularly love the idea of looking for bugs and wild painting.