Ideas & inspiration for fun garden activities

Your own garden as an amusement park with a slide, playhouse and trampoline or a fantastic party venue – there are countless ways to use the garden. Together with your children you fill your garden with life. Whether you take on your own garden projects or try out various play options, you have the choice of how you want to use your family garden.

HABA has put together the most popular ideas for fun garden activities here. There's sure to be something for everyone.

Gardening with children

Children love being allowed to take part in gardening. Nothing fills them with greater pride, than seeing plants grow that they have sown themselves. This also promotes certain skills such as creativity and self-confidence.

You can find out how to best carry out your own garden projects, which plants are particularly suitable and from what age your kids can participate in gardening on the page about gardening with children.

Holiday in your own garden

If your family garden has become your own amusement park, you know that nothing stands in the way of a holiday at home. Would you prefer to relax or rather romp around in your own garden? No matter what kind of holiday you want, the right ideas and tips can be found at HABA.

On the page about holidays in your own garden you'll learn which activities really bring the holiday feeling to life and sweeten the time you spend with your kids at home.

Celebrate a child's birthday in your own garden

Parties in your own garden are an absolute highlight for the kids. Above all Children's birthdays at home are popular with little party animals. With loved ones and all friends together, the right party supplies and lots of different games, the fun really gets started.

That's why HABA has put together on the garden parties page which games and activities are best suited for your celebrations.

Browse through the ideas and find party games that are sure to bring plenty of laughs.\n

\nSpring crafting in the garden

When it gets warmer outside again and the first flowers start to grow in the garden, the probably most exciting season is just around the corner. Nature provides you with lots of ideas for shared crafting sessions in spring. Whether animal or plant motifs, you have the choice.

The best part: Even natural materials can be used for your spring craft activities. Your own garden is the ideal place to collect them. In addition to numerous ideas for crafting in spring, HABA also shows you great tutorials to recreate.

How to get your children excited about gardening

Kids love learning new things. As soon as they can move independently, nothing stops them. The family garden at home, with its variety of plants, trees and all the insects that are barely visible to the naked eye, is a vast landscape for exploration.

They are therefore only too happy to help you with the gardening. After all, what could be better than having fun while learning? To make sure their enthusiasm for the garden and especially for gardening doesn't fade so quickly, there are a few small tricks, to keep the kids' curiosity alive.

For one, when gardening together you should choose plants that grow quickly and are easy to care for. Your children will be thrilled when they see that the plants have grown a few centimeters overnight. In addition, it fills them with pride when your kids are allowed to take on certain tasks on their own. So always let them help decide when you plan garden projects and assign tasks.

Also larger building projects, which are intended to beautify the garden, increase the enthusiasm of your little explorers. So, insect hotels are a great idea if you have some DIY skills and want to introduce the children to the world of the garden's little inhabitants. Even you as parents will certainly learn a thing or two.

Wohlfühloase & Spieletraum: Gartengestaltungs-Ideen für Kinder

The home garden can be beautified in many ways. Whether a cozy oasis for the whole family or play areas for the children – you can turn your garden into the paradise you dream of. There are no limits to what you can do.

Let this overview from HABA to inspire your own garden projects and design possibilities. You will surely come up with many more individual ideas for designing your dream garden.

Create a kids' garden bed

Gardening together with the children can become a real test of patience for parents. To prevent that, there are a few tips and tricks, which turn shared gardening into a great family fun.

The best part: Your children learn a sense of responsibility and incidentally you'll soon be harvesting your own fruit, vegetables, or herbs.

On the page about gardening with children, HABA has compiled, alongside important information, a great guide for the first kids' garden bed.

Water fun: water channels or slides

In your own garden, water fun should of course not be missing. Besides pools and paddling pools with slides, water channels are popular with children. These are less dangerous than a pond, but offer just as much space for discovering wildlifewater toysThe best part also bring the smallest just as much fun as large pools and moreover promote your children's dexterity. Browse the HABA product world and find the right water toy for your family garden.SandboxPlaying with sand, squelching and building – children love to feel the sand between their little fingers. A private sandbox is the highlight in your own garden.

: Playing with sand

promotes creativity as well as fine motor skills The best partof your children.But how and where do you set up the sandbox? Is setting up a sandbox even possible in small gardens? HABA answers all these questions on the page about the perfect sandbox for your garden. Building insect hotels

If you have a little bit of handy skills, building insect hotels is just the thing for you and your children. In joint crafting hours you not only create a

great piece for your garden

, you also help many insects that are threatened with extinction.This is for little budding craftsmen an exciting task that fills them with pride

and at the same time supplies them with new knowledge. On the page about building insect hotels you will receive all important information as well as simple instructionsCozy oasis & play paradise: garden design ideas for children: Great water toys

Safety tips for your garden

So that your children can play and romp freely in the garden, it must of course be made child-safe. As parents you should pay particular attention to the following points:

• There should be no poisonous plants or trees (e.g. lily of the valley, deadly nightshade, yews, etc.) grow.

• Make sure that there are no shrubs with sharp thorns in the garden.

• Decide together on areas in the garden, where your children are allowed to play.

• You should avoid having a pond – unless it is secured with a wire mesh fence. Water channels are a suitable alternative.

• Store your garden tools safely in a lockable shed that your children should not enter without adult supervision.

• Choose your play equipment appropriate to your children's age and pay attention to natural or non-toxic materials as well as a blue GS mark.

• If you play equipment own, you should regularly check for safety. Check if all screws are still tight, whether the attachment to trees and the like is still secure, whether the fall area is adequately protected and free of obstacles, and whether parts may need replacing – you should test all of these points at regular intervals.

• In general, of course: always keep a watchful eye on your children .

Play ideas for the garden – suitable for all age groups

Climbing, playing, enjoying quiet moments, or just fooling around a bit in the garden – anything is possible as long as you have creative ideas and imagination and creativity run free. With these tips even the smallest garden can become the biggest play paradise become.

From Free play in all weather to play equipment and party games such as for a children's birthday at home – there are so many games and ideas, which you can play with your children in your own garden. Get inspired for lots of playtime and find the garden leisure activities that suit you.

Mud kitchen: Play with sand

Moulds, spades and the best mud kitchen: Playing in the sand and building the most beautiful sandcastles is incredibly fun for the little artists. Theimagination of children is valuable and this is exactly what is encouraged by playing in the sand.

Once toddlers have come into contact with sand, it's hard to get them out of the sandbox. It's so lovely when their own little fingers build great sand figures.

The best thing: You don't necessarily need a big garden, to enable your children to enjoy sand. Because sandcastles can even be built on the balcony. A bowl of sand is usually enough for toddlers.

Ball games

Whether soccer, basketball or games with soft balls, the range of different ball sports is huge. And so you can also get really creative in your own family garden and invent your own games. Because basically there are no limits for you.

The best: To let your children really burn off energy, it doesn't take much equipment. Only the right ball is enough to learn the coolest tricks and games and to romp around in your own garden.

In the HABA online shop you will find various balls for playtime in your own garden. Browse through the product groups and pick the play balls that suit you and your children right away.

Trampoline jumping

Movement is crucial for a healthy physical development of your children. Especially trampoline jumping helps them perceive their body and the environment better.

The best: Trampoline jumping promotes concentration

Swings

Climbing frames with a swing: More or less that's what appears on most children's wish lists when it comes to garden design. Swings are a great play opportunity to encourage children to be more active. In addition, there's sure to be a lot of fun when theyperceive the world from a completely different perspective.

By swinging, children get to know their body awareness better and better. Even babies can observe their surroundings in baby swings built for them. That way they can be gently soothed.

Tent outing or reading sessions in your own garden

Your own garden can become a true feel-good oasis. Shared reading sessions or simple rest breaks as well as overnight stays in the garden can only be enjoyed with the appropriate accessories.

Discover nature in your own garden

Little explorers love nature. So it's of course important that they have the right accessories. Only in this way can

The best: Not only will your children learn a lot of new things about their favorite animals in your own garden, you yourselves will certainly still learn a great deal

Das Beste: Diese Garten-Ideen für Kinder fördern nicht nur Neugier und Wissen, sondern sorgen auch für gemeinsame Erlebnisse – bei denen Groß und Klein immer wieder Neues entdecken.

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Garden and tree festively decorated © Halfpoint - stock.adobe.com

Child playing with water toy in the garden © PepinPedros - stock.adobe.com

Children playing football © Svitlana - stock.adobe.com