How to Plant Flowers with Your Kids

My daughter loves anything that has to do with flowers, so it’s natural that she loves gardening. However, she isn’t a fan of bugs and worms, just like momma. Learn how to plant flowers with your kids and enjoy this fun flowery activity, just like I wanted it with my daughter.

If you love this activity, check out more Fun Flower Activities for Kids.

I love that we can spend this time outdoors doing something we enjoy. I’m only getting started as a novice gardener. I usually just buy plants because we have such a short growing season, but I thought we’d start some seeds just for fun.

Child planting colorful flowers on a pot full of garden soil

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Interesting Facts About Gardening

Plants Need Friends, Too! – Some plants grow better when planted next to certain other plants. This is called companion planting!
Soil is Alive! – Healthy soil is full of tiny creatures like worms and microbes that help plants grow strong.
Sunlight is Plant Food! – Plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.

You should try my Plant Life Cycle Worksheets and Plant Parts Coloring Pages for a fun lesson about plants!

Recommended Flower Books

Encourage your kids’ love for flowers and gardening! These awesome books about flowers will help keep your young ones busy while waiting for their planted flowers to bloom!

The Tiny Seed: With seeded paper to grow your own flowers! (The World of Eric Carle)Flowers (Plant Parts)In the Garden The Little Gardener Pinkalicious and the Flower Fairy (I Can Read Level 1)The Little Gardener (Teenie Greenies)

Benefits of Gardening for Kids

Hands-On Learning – Gardening teaches kids about nature, plants, and the environment in a fun and interactive way.
Healthy Eating – Growing fruits and vegetables encourages kids to try fresh, healthy foods they helped grow.
Boosts Responsibility – Taking care of plants helps kids learn patience, responsibility, and the joy of seeing their hard work pay off!

Recommended Flower Activity Kits

My little one and I enjoyed this fun gardening activity and we would love to share the happiness with you! Check out these recommended flower activity kits to kick-start your little one’s gardening journey.

Flower Growing Kit by Beanstalk – 5 Types of Non-GMO Flower Seeds Jecery 30 Set Garden Paper Pot Craft Kit Planting for Kids Foam Flowers Crafts Hapinest Flower Garden Growing Kit Kids Gardening Crafts Sunflower Grow Kit with Mammoth Flower Seeds for Planting!Window Garden Sow Much Fun Seed Starting, Flower Planting and Growing Kit for Kids Little Gardener Tool Set with Garden Tools Bag for Kids Gardening

Gardening Supplies for Kids

Here are the supplies you need to start your little gardening journey. Choose seeds of your favorite flowers, and make your backyard (or front yard) a haven for flying bees and other pollinating insects. See the list of items below.

Container mix or garden soil
Containers (optional)
Seed trays
Shovels
Gloves
Flowers and/or seeds

How to Plant Flowers With Your Kids?

My daughter had her pair of gloves. She doesn’t like to get dirty and shovel. She enjoys helping Mama in the garden, so I let her at it. We used container mix soil for my containers, while I added gardening soil if we added plants to the ground.

I started some flower seeds early, and here, there’s always a risk of frost until May, so I wanted to be able to move them if needed.

My daughter added soil to the containers and used her finger to dig a hole and add the seeds. She then covered the hole with more dirt, patted things down, and watered all the containers.

If it was a plant, I had to remove it from the container after we dug a large hole to fit the plant’s root in. This was her favorite activity because she could see the flowers without waiting for the seeds to sprout.

The trays have sunflower seeds in them, and they sprout after a week. They’re so easy to grow and fun to watch, and they’re a must-have for your kids if they love to garden. Some birds tried to get at the seeds, but we didn’t lose too many.

More Flower Activities for Kids

More Spring Activities

A child planting colorful flowers in a pot full of garden soil.

Get outdoors and see what else your kids can grow, they’re so proud when they start to see their hard work pay off and they’ll always remind you when they need to be watered.

This month’s theme is flowers, so if you want to see what other flower ideas these ladies have come up with, I’m sure you won’t be sorry.