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Support your EYFS and KS1 curriculum with the Gardening & Growing Resource Collection 3–7yrs a carefully curated collection offering everything you need to establish an engaging outdoor gardening area. Developed by Early Excellence education specialists, this durable and versatile collection enables children to explore gardening and planting first-hand and offers everything you need to introduce children to the natural world and inspire a love of outdoor learning.
The complete resource collection, consisting of robust and child-friendly tools including a child sized wheelbarrow, long and short handled tools will support children as they dig, plant, rake, water and care for their growing garden. The collection includes a range of watering cans for children to develop an understanding of capacity and weight. The metal watering can captures and stores rainwater, providing a sustainable method to maintaining the outdoor garden. Each element of the gardening and growing collection has been selected to encourage independent exploration and practical learning, while being built to withstand busy outdoor environments.
Enhance the outdoor gardening area and introduce the Outdoor Investigation Bench to create a focal point for children to use the metal hand tools collaboratively to plant seeds, water seedlings and observe growth over time, supporting their understanding of life cycles and environmental care. Add an Outdoor Planter for year round planting. The gardening activities that the collection offers promotes physical development through digging, lifting and carrying, while also fostering patience, responsibility and teamwork.
For deeper learning consider pairing this collection with the Giant Wooden Balance Scale for hands-on measurement and comparison of soil, plants and tools and the Exploring Nature KS1 Enrichment Collection to extend KS1 children’s learning of plant growth and life cycles.
Add purposeful mark making and add the Set of Wooden Chalkboards or the Set of Outdoor Dry Erase Pockets to encourage children to record observations, label plants, keep tally of seeds and plants, display the weather or garden rules, the possibilities and opportunities are endless!
Explore the full range of Gardening & Growing Resources to enhance your early years or KS1 outdoor classroom, creating an engaging and inspiring environment where children can learn, explore, and thrive.
Learning opportunities
This Gardening & Growing Complete Collection 3–7yrs includes:
Storage Solution Combine with the ready-made Gardening & Growing Storage Solution 3-7yrs to keep your Gardening & Growing Resources organised, accessible and enticing to children.
Variations Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown, however we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value. Secondary images used for representation purposes only.
