Royal backing for children’s outdoor activity planners
With three kids of her own, you’d imagine the Duchess of Cambridge, pictured, to have a few tricks up her sleeve when it comes to ways of keeping them occupied, so if you’re stuck for ideas, take a look at the
Royal Horticultural Society’s activity cards launched in collaboration with HRH. The cards are intended to encourage children to engage with gardens and nature – and we all want to get our children off into the outdoors more and appreciating the world around them!
They were originally inspired by the Back to Nature Garden created for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, co-designed by Kate and architects Andree
Davies and Adam White, and influenced by childhood memories triggered by the natural world (it had a hollow log for children to climb through, a den, waterfall, stream and tree house).
The step-by-step guides, ‘which have gone on to prove very popular’, include creating fairy gardens, welly planters, leaf wands, bug hotels and painted pebbles, and use recycled old toys and boots so they’re all low-cost.
The activity cards, inset right, are available from the RHS website schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk