Lessons and Activities
COVID-19 UPDATE
With COVID-19 keeping children home from school, we understand the need for fun, creative, educational activities that parents and guardians can easily provide without the need for special materials.
That is why we have begun highlighting those that fit the above criteria with an asterisk (*). This is in addition to the work we are putting in to add a dozen or more new activities each and every month to this page for as long as our young people are away from school. While many of the activities were designed for classroom use, the vast majority are easily adaptable for at-home use as well (Note: many of the below activities require access to nature!)
So, keep checking back and keep us in the loop by showing us the fun that your children are having with the activities below! You can email us directly, tag us in your posts on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, or use the hashtag #WRSFG on any of the social media platforms.
And be sure to head over to our print-outs page for more things to do!
All Ages
- Soil Art
- Butterfly Puddle*
- Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling in the Garden*
- Create a Nature Perfume! (Video)*
- Make Your Own Nature Journal (Video)*
- Seed Starting
- Worm Trivia*
- Flower Pounding (Video)*
- Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other (Video)*
- Flower Mandala*
- Seed Mosaic Planter
- Plant a Rainbow
- Social Distancing Bingo! (4-11)*
- Matching Mates*
- Leaf Rubbings*
- Gardening Activities Book (5-12)*
- Painting with Natural Materials (Video)
- Can You Make Soil? (Video)*
- Nature Mandalas (Video)*
JKSK
- JK-Grade 2 – Pollination Patrol
- JK-Grade 2 – Roots and Shoots
- Garden Search*
- Plant a seed and see what grows
- Kindergarten Ontario Curriculum Chart
- Animals In Our Food System
- Great Big Crunch
- JK-Grade 3 – Grains on the Brain
- Nourishing Nursery Rhymes
- Worm Exploration
- JK-Grade 2 – Seed Viewer*
- JK-Grade 3 – Make a Mud Pie*
- Watering the Garden*
- Creating Environmental Artwork*
- Rainbow of Birds*
Grade Three
- Grade 3-4 – Planting for a Spring Salad
- Seed Starting Workshop
- Grade 3-4 – Transplanting Workshop
- Grade 3-5 – Planning the Garden Workshop*
- Grade 3-8 – Waste in Our Food System
- Herbalicious Poetry*
- Grade 3-4 – Soil Exploration and Composting
- Dirt Dip Activity
- Science – Pollinators
- Grade 3-6 – Eat a Rainbow*
- Grade 3-6 – Poetry in the Garden*
- Identifying Trees Using Field Journals*