Gardening Books for Kids

We are so excited about Spring and about starting our garden.

We planted our fruit and veggie plants about a month ago and some are starting to produce!

We can’t wait to eat the produce we get from our very own garden!

In this post, we share some of the fun gardening books for kids that we found interesting to read together.

And don’t forget to see our book list hub!

It is full of lists of books on all kinds of topics on all subjects! You will love it and find it very helpful!

Montessori at Home Great Gardening Read-Alouds

Do you have younger kids that are just learning to read or that haven’t learned to read yet?

Well, don’t let them feel left out on this great opportunity to teach them on gardening and about plants!

Here are some wonderful read-aloud books that kids will love!

Oh Say Can You Seed?: All About Flowering Plants The Little Gardener (Teenie Greenies)Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric Carle)Lola Plants a Garden Planting a Rainbow If You Plant a Seed

Awesome Books on Planting a Garden

Ready to plant a garden together as a family?

Having kids around piles of soil, fragile seeds and breakable pots can be stressful, but don’t let that deter you from having this great experience with your children!

Here are some fantastic books to help you get started and use year after year when you are planting a garden.

Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden Gardening Projects for Kids: Fantastic ideas for making things, growing plants and flowers, and attracting wildlife to the garden The Best-Ever Step-by-Step Kid’s First Gardening Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together The Best-Ever Step-by-Step Kid’s First Gardenings 300 Step-by-Step Cooking & Gardening Projects for Kids

Interesting Books on How to Study Plants

Before of after planting your garden, you can definitely go a step further in your wonderful homeschool studies.

Include a unit on Botany!

Learn about the plants that you have in your garden!

Wouldn’t that be fun?

Eyewitness Plant Plants and Tree Ecosystems! From Wetlands to Forests – Botany for Kids Tell Me, Tree: All About Trees for Kids The Reason for a Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen, and Seeds A Plant’s Life Cycle! From Small Sprouts to Big Leaves Plants! How They Change with the Seasons (Botany for Kids)

Composting Books for Kids

If you are feeling productive, then you can even start a compost pile!

We have our own and we LOVE it when we see our trash turn into “black gold” and make our plants beautiful.

Worms Eat My Garbage, How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder

Herb Books for Kids

Here are some suggestions for kids that wanted to have an herb garden, too!

Kid’s Herb Book, A: For Children of All Ages Herbs Coloring Book (Dover Nature Coloring Book)Medicinal Plant Coloring Book: An Herb Guide Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

Wildflower Books for Kids

How about wildflowers? Don’t you think these will be easy for kids to tend?

They will also look beautiful in a vase on your dining room table.

Wildflowers, Blooms & Blossoms (Take Along Guides)Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Wildflowers Wildflowers (National Geographic: My First Pocket Guide)Spotter’s Guide to Wild Flowers of North America (Kid Kits)Designs for Coloring: Wild Flowers: Wildflowers The Flower Alphabet Book (Jerry Pallotta’s Alphabet Books)

Botany Resources for Kids

Finally, like getting dirt under our fingernails isn’t enough, let’s go deeper into the hands-on learning part of plants and gardening, except it’s cleaner. Here are some of our favorite activities.

Montessori Botany Seed Puzzle for Early Preschool Learning Toy Montessori Botany Puzzle Activity Set Montessori Flower Puzzle Montessori Tree Puzzle Adena Montessori Botany Cabinet Nomenclature Cards