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Garden Crafts Challenge – DIY Garden Crafts & Ideas

March 31, 2014

Garden Crafts Challenge DIY

This post has now been updated. A little while ago, we challenged you to create some wonderful Garden Crafts. You came. You saw the Garden Craft challenge. You got crafty!! And I love all the garden craft ideas you came up with. As part of the challenge, over 65 Garden Craft ideas were shared – from mobiles, to plant pots, to fairy houses. And I picked my favourite here. Check out the rest of the wonderful crafts below!! Congratulations on the “winners”. I hope you are inspired to create your own wonderful DIY Garden Crafts this Spring and Summer!! Garden Crafts are a fun way to take your crafting outdoors – with or without the kids!!

Garden Crafts - excited about the warmer weather and can wait to get into the garden? Here are some wonderful and delightful garden DIYs that you may want to check out. Something for everyone. From DIY Garden Aprons, to fairy houses and simple bug hotels for the kids. Great Garden Crafts for Kids and beyond!

Clockwise: Fairy Garden Stump by The Magic Onions, Garden Apron by Hellies Corner  , Nature Loom by Babble Dabble Do, Nature Mandalas by Twig and Toadstool, Wildlife Hedge by se7en, Music Man by Let’s Play Music, Toadstool by Twig and Toadstool, Stone Plant Markers by Rainy Day Mum

DIY Garden Craft Ideas

Garden Crafts For Grown Ups

Garden Crafts - excited about the warmer weather and can wait to get into the garden? Here are some wonderful and delightful garden DIYs that you may want to check out. Something for everyone. From DIY Garden Aprons, to fairy houses and simple bug hotels for the kids. Great Garden Crafts for Kids and beyond! #gardencrafts #grownups #foradults

We have a hole post dedicated to TIRE DIYs for the Garden, that I really think you would enjoy and should check out.. but in the meantime:

  • Recycled Cutlery Windchimes
  • How to sew a Gardening Apron By Satori Design
  • And another Garden Apron by Hellies Corner
  • Adore these Clay Pot Lighthouses. So fun. See Mimi Rose Creative Design for more info!
  • Fun plant pot mushrooms by Birds and Blooms
  • Gorgeous “Tower of pots” bird bath and planter by Home Stories at Oz
  • Adorable golf ball lady birds by Art Drops
  • Fantastic Chandelier Plant Pots by DIY Show Off
  • Watering Can Pouring Crystals by Crafts by Amanda

Garden Crafts to make for the Kids

DIY Garden Crafts FOR Kids - let's make the garden a FUN place this summer #gardencrafts #summer #forkids

Here are some ideas for making the garden a su per fun space to play in! Make these DIY Garden Crafts FOR and WITH your kids!

  • Tree Stump Fairy Garden by The Magic Onions
  • Music Man by Let’s Play Music
  • Make a Tin Can Man with the kids by Thirfty Fun
  • DIY Toad Stool Charis by Twig and Toadstools
  • How to make a nesting box by Rainy Day Mum
  • DIY Fairy Garden Table (oh everyone needs one!) by Inner Child Fun
  • DIY Garden Stepping Stones by Megan Zeni
  • Rock Fairy Houses by Thinly Spread
  • DIY Mud Kitchen by Grillo Designs

Garden Crafts With the Kids

Bird Feeder Crafts for the Garden

  • Pinecone Bird Feeders
  • How to make Bird Cake
  • Milk Carton Owl Bird Feeder (More wonderful Bird Feeder Crafts here!)
  • Cookie Cutter Bird Seed Cakes by Kitchen Counter Chronicle

Easy Windchimes and Ornaments for the Garden

DIY Garden Crafts Ideas - adorable Garden Ornaments for kids to make. Love these homemade Windchime crafts to cheer up the garden all year round #gardencrafts #ornaments #forkids

Time to DECORATE the garden with the kids. Here are some wonderful Garden Ornaments and Garden Windchimes for Kids to make!! Personally.. we love the colourful beads and shells best!!! And years later these still hang in our garden.

  • Easy Shell Windchimes for kids to make!
  • Recycled Cutlery Windchimes
  • Easy Beaded Ornaments for kids to make by Rainy Day Mum
  • Melted Beads Star Windchimes by Stay At Home Life
  • Easy Tin Can Wind Chimes for Kids by Hands on as we grow
  • Easy Flower Pot Windchimes by Thimble and Twig
  • Recycled Key Windchime by Inner Child Fun

Fun Planter Marker Crafts

DIY Garden Crafts - how to make plant markers from rocks, twigs and recycled plant markers. Get kids invovled in gardening this spring #gardencrafts #plantmarkers #forkids

A great way to get kids involved in the garden is to make some gorgeous DIY Plant Markers with them. It is also an opportunity to sneak in some writing practice and learn about different fruit and veg. Here are some lovely ideas!

  • Painted Rock Planters for Preschoolers
  • LOVE these vegetable and fruit stone markers from a Adventures in a Box!
  • Stone Plant Markers by Rainy Day Mum
  • Simple STICK Planter Makers by the Homeroad
  • Spoon decoupage plant markers by The Magic Onions
  • Broken plant pot garden markers by Hardly Housewives

Other garden crafts for kids

  • Super duper easy Bug Hotels
  • Fairy House Fun – use local materials to make these magical Fairy Houses
  • Nature weaving by Babble Dabble Do
  • Nature Mandalas by Twig and Toadstool
  • Wildlife Hedge by se7en
  • Pain Splatter Pots by Our Kids Things
  • Adorable Garden Nature Find Treasure box by Simple Parenting
  • Arty fun with Nature Paint Brushes by Messy Little Monster
  • Garden Rock Caterpillar by Nellie Bellie

Garden Crafts that help Kids Grow Things

  • Our favourite ever How to Make Grass Heads, now with Grass Head Lesson Plans
  • How to make giant Grass Caterpillars
  • Thirfty Seedling pots – get kids growing seedlings but also teach them about recycling and reusing!
  • Similarly – how to make newspaper seedling pots!
  • How to start a Container Garden DIYs
  • How to make seed bombs
  • Mini Garden Journals to help kids keep a record of their garden aventures
  • Clever DIY Seed Tape from Inner Child Fun
  • Similarly this upcycled truck planter is super fun by Teach Me Mommy
  • Wellie Planters by Life At The Zoo
  • DIY Vegetable Garden for Kids by Thimble and Twig

Hope you enjoyed these DIY Garden Crafts and Ideas and that you are inspired to get crafty!!

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Comments

  1. Ali at kidschaos.com says

    March 31, 2014 at 9:08 am

    Ooh we can’t wait to see the next batch of #getyourcrafton for the garden, we want to be inspired!

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 31, 2014 at 11:48 am

      Yes!! Looking forward to it too!!

      Reply
  2. Liz Burton says

    March 31, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    Yay! Really excited for this challenge, I do need to get out in my garden more.

    Reply
  3. Hellie's Corner says

    March 31, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    I have just spotted this linky on G+, it all sounds very exciting, I shall link up once my craft is finished 🙂

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      March 31, 2014 at 3:21 pm

      Hooray! Welcome on board!

      Reply
  4. Hellie's Corner says

    April 4, 2014 at 7:50 am

    A great linky, gardening and crafts are two of my favourite things, so to combine them is brilliant 🙂

    Reply
  5. Theresa (Capri + 3) says

    April 6, 2014 at 12:55 am

    I love this linky idea. I am in gardening mode right now and can’t wait to involve our little ones in the fun. Thanks for the inspiration.

    Reply
  6. Angela @CreatifulKids says

    April 6, 2014 at 8:36 am

    Such a great challenge! It makes me miss having a garden even more :-/

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      April 6, 2014 at 7:18 pm

      Awww so sorry to hear that!! Have you got a window box? Or could you be persuaded to have a go at a Terrarium or similar?

      Reply
  7. Kate Williams says

    April 24, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    I’m not sure quite how crafty mine is but I have done my best! I do prefer crafts when I get to hit stuff with a hammer anyway 😉

    Reply
  8. Ana says

    May 1, 2014 at 12:28 pm

    Fantastic projects! Thank you so much for including our Natural Loom!

    Reply
  9. Sara @ Let's Play Music says

    May 1, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    Thanks so much for featuring our music man Maggy! We loved taking part in this challenge – can’t wait for the next one 😀

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:35 am

      Sara, I ADORE your music man!! He is the coolest ever!!

      Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      May 2, 2014 at 10:35 am

      PS next challenge already on Instagram… check the #getyourcrafton hashtag!

      Reply
  10. Hellie's Corner says

    May 4, 2014 at 6:47 am

    Thanks so much for picking my garden apron as one of the ‘winners’ 🙂 There are some great garden crafts listed here.

    Reply
    • Red Ted Art says

      May 4, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      My pleasure! Such a perfect “garden craft”!!!

      Reply
  11. shelah@mosswoodconnections.com says

    July 13, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    So many lovely ideas you have here. I am inspired to go out and create in my garden today!

    Reply
  12. Donald S. Watts says

    July 11, 2016 at 3:00 am

    Wow, That s what i ve been looking for! We have a big garden and i want to make some kind of new outside fun things for my chidlren. Love these craft. I will check out and cant wait to do it at the weekend!

    Reply

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