Shopping edit – best kids gardening kits to encourage little green fingers

Get little ones out in the garden to embrace their green-fingered creativity

Encourage children to get involved with a spot of gardening with our pick of the best kids' gardening kits. Nurture their love of gardens and wildlife by giving them the best tools to explore the garden.

Gardening is a really fun activity for parents to undertake with small children. With so many benefits for both.

Firstly it gets everyone outside in the fresh air. And for children, it helps with fine motor skills while teaching them about food, growth and nature.

From mini tools to seedling kits there's a green-fingered solution to suit all ages in our round-up of adorable kids' gardening kits.

Kids garden set including apron and mini tools include a trowel, fork and spade

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1. Children's Gardening Gift Set, Not on the High Street

Get little ones dressed for the occasion with this sweet gardening gift set.

Specifications

Dimensions: Drawstring Bag 45 x 41 cm

Featuring a characterful apron, decorated with a fun image of a mole. The garden creature is painted on the sturdy canvas pocket, emerging from inside a molehill on the outside.

Once clothes are protected, kids are ready to get digging with the tools included. The wooden and metal mini tools include a trowel, fork and spade. All of which are also perfect for further fun in the sandpit – if your garden has one of those, too.

Snapdragon Children’s Gardening Gift Set, £35, Not on the High Street

Kids garden set with mini metal bucket, miniature trowel and fork, along with gardening gloves, plant markers, mini pots and a packet of popcorn seeds

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2. Little Pals Kids Gardening Set, Amazon

This simple yet fun gardening solution offers buckets of fun for mini gardeners.

Specifications

Dimensions: H23 x W14 x D14cm

Complete with a mini metal bucket, miniature trowel and fork, along with gardening gloves, plant markers, mini pots and a packet of Popcorn Seeds. 

Allowing kids to plant and harvest their own popcorn seeds will bring all the more joy to movie nights. 

Suitable for ages 3 years and up.

Little Pals Kids Gardening Set, £19.95, Amazon

Kids garden set with yellow terracotta pot, mini spade, seed pots and notebook and pen

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3. Grow Your Own Sunflowers Set, Not on the High Street

This eco-friendly gardening set is designed for forward thinking, green-fingered kids.

Specifications

Dimensions: L27 x W18 x D10.5cm

It includes all the tools they need to grow glorious sunflowers. 

From the seeds and tools to planters this kit has all kids needs to get their hands dirty and plant their own sunflowers.

More specifically, the set comprises a pretty yellow terracotta pot with Coir Disk. Copper Plant Markers a colourful mini kids garden spade, Nutscene jute twine tiddler, two fibre seed pots and a notebook and pencil.

Green Fingered Kids Grown Your Own Sunflowers Set, £32, Not on the High Street

Kids garden set with tote bag, hand spade, trowel, rake, watering can and gloves

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4. Bigjigs Children's Garden Tool Bag, John Lewis & Partners

Budding young gardeners will love the Bigjigs Toys Green Gardening Bag.

Specifications

Dimensions: H24 x W28 x D13cm

The mini gardening set comprises a small tote bag, filled with everything a little gardener needs to get the job done.  

The contents include small versions of a hand spade, trowel, rake, watering can and gloves. The bag provides the ideal place to keep it all together and is easy for little ones to transport around the garden. 

The charming set of tools is perfect for digging in the dirt and watering plants with the grown-ups.

Bigjigs Children’s Garden Tool Bag, £14.99, John Lewis & Partners

Kids garden set with reusable mini greenhouse

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5. My First Mini Greenhouse, Gardening For Kids

Better than merely encouraging little ones to play outside to play, this smart set puts them on the right track to growing their own from an early age.

Specifications

Dimensions: H31 x W27 cm

First comes the fun task of building the reusable mini greenhouse. Then it teaches them to start growing and nurturing seedlings and cuttings. This brilliant set offers a great way to combine play with learning.

The set is complete with a mini greenhouse, compost disk, widger and dibber, plant labels. Along with easy to follow instructions and growing guide, with three packets of seeds – cress, sunflower and coleus.

Suitable for ages 5 years and above.

My First Mini Greenhouse and Growing Kit, £14, Gardening for Kids

Kids garden set including bucket and spade set

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6. Bio-Toy 4-Piece Playset, Amazon

Dantoy are championing the notion that shoppers should buy less, buy well. And it goes with out saying that’s the range of Bio toys are made to last and are dishwasher safe, frost-proof and contain no toxins.

Specifications

Dimensions: H17 x W33 x D16cm

The range includes this bucket and spade set, ideal for fun in the sandpit, the beach or mud kitchens. This simple set also features a rake and a mini watering can to encourage kids to get out into the outdoors and learn about gardening whilst having fun.

Dantoy Bio-Toy 4 piece Playset, £22.99, Amazon

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Tamara was Ideal Home's Digital Editor before joining the Woman & Home team in 2022. She has spent the last 15 years working with the style teams at Country Homes & Interiors and Ideal Home, both now at Future PLC. It’s with these award wining interiors teams that she's honed her skills and passion for shopping, styling and writing. Tamara is always ahead of the curve when it comes to interiors trends – and is great at seeking out designer dupes on the high street.