Seed Catalogs for Kids

The seed catalogs come to gardeners all year long but in the middle of winter it seems the catalogs come in droves! Sometimes there are so many seed catalogs you aren’t sure what to do with all of them and how to exactly use them. But you can use them all in one form or another. Here are some kid fun ideas to get you started.

Planning the Garden

Planning the garden is a good way to pass by the winter blah days. It’s cold outside and nothing is growing. It’s brown brown brown all around your garden area.

Start flipping through seed catalogs and find some seeds you’d like to grow this year. By making a plan early enough, you can plan for any budget and any type garden. It makes great use of the seed catalog and of course, is the main use of the seed catalog.

Some kid’s activities you could do with this aspect of seed catalogs is having the older kids write down the things they would like from the catalog. They will get practice writing and perhaps with a budget in mind they can learn a little math too.

Pictures

Kids like pictures especially of things they will be involved with. Planning the garden can be easier with pictures. The catalogs with big bright colorful pictures are ones that kids can see what the final product will look like and whether that is the results they want.

The kids could draw the pictures or do the collage in the next section.

Collage

This fun kid’s activity is just a fun activity to make use of older or otherwise unwanted catalogs. The catalogs with the big bright pictures of course work better in a collage.

Just tear or cut out the pictures and attach the picture using glue, tape or some other paste to another piece of paper. Card stock is much easier to work with and will give the collage a more firm background.

Not Getting Enough Seed Catalogs?

If you aren’t getting enough seed catalogs or you want some more search around. Search local home and garden stores and on the Internet.

Here are a few favorites:

Burpee
Park’s Seeds
Territorial’s Seeds

-Katina Mooneyham

Katina Mooneyham is a freelance writer from central Ohio. She is a full time stay at home mother homeschooling her two children. Katina likes to read, hike, take nature walks, write and garden. Teaching her kids about gardening is a big priority.