Gardening Themed Toddler Trays

This gardening toddler tray has many activities for your child to learn and play! This is also a great way to bring the fun of spring a things are warming up a bit outside.

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Learn how to use these garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Use these unique garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Use these unique garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Use these awesome garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Use these awesome fun garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Gardening Tools in Dirt

This toddler tray has some gardening tools you can get from Amazon. There is also some “dirt” (I didn’t want to use actual dirt because of the bugs so I made this sensory dirt using 1 cup baking soda and ½ cup cocoa powder). The tray also has some beans which we pretended were seeds.

Use these awesome garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Carrot Playdough Mat

Print out this playdough mat. It’s a fairly simple idea. Have your child make the right number of vegetables to go with the words at the top. When they are done let them use their imagine for whatever else they would like to make!

Discover how to use these garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Vegetable Cutting Practice

You can make this tray by getting several paint chips and cutting and decorating them to look like vegetables (carrot, cucumber, corn, and potato). Put the “vegetables” on the tray along with some scissors. Have your toddler use the scissors to cut on the lines of the paint chips.

Use these fun garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Put “Seeds” in the “Dirt”

This toddler tray uses a popcorn box with brown construction paper glued on the top of it. There are also holes in the top of the popcorn box that are just big enough to fit some penne pasta. To the side is a bunch of penne pasta. Pretend the pasta are seeds to plant. Have your toddler put the pasta into the holes, then dump them out and do it again.

Discover how to use these garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Fruit Puzzles

You can find these cute fruit puzzles from Amazon and they are perfect for our gardening theme. The puzzles aren’t too difficult since the pieces are thin, perfect for your toddler.

Use these great garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Gardening Toddler Book

I read this book at least once during the time that these trays are out. You can have your toddler color the pictures or look at the pictures as he turns the pages. Don’t expect your toddler to learn how to read by looking this book. This book is simply for exposure to words and letters and concepts of print.

Use these great garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Printables

Matching Cards (Garden Preschool Pack, part 1 page 4&5), Pre-Writing Practice (Garden Preschool Pack, part 1 page 6).

Use these fun garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening

Featured Toy

Mater Truck

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Themed Books

Jack’s Garden by: Henry Cole

My Garden by: Kevin Henkes

In the Garden by: Elizabeth Spurr

Who’s Hiding? In the Garden by: Christiane Gunzi

Use these exciting garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Put Veggies in Basket

Knitted or plastic vegetables work best for this basket, but instead of using 3D vegetables, you can also just print these vegetable pictures in black and white and let your toddler color them before gathering them into the basket.

Find out how to use these garden activities to teach your toddlers about gardening

Plant Seeds

This tray uses more sensory dirt and some dried pinto beans. Show your toddler how to plant a seed (make a hole, put the seed in, then cover it with dirt).

Use these exciting garden activities to teach toddlers about gardening