Cultivate a love for gardening with your entire family in our virtual PBS KIDS Backyard! Explore a variety of educational gardening activities, including hands-on projects and games, any time of the year! Be sure to check out additional educational resources at PBS KIDS and PBS Wisconsin Education, and join us in-person for the PBS KIDS Backyard at this year’s Garden & Landscape Expo, Feb. 9-11, 2024.
Play and Learn Together with Children/Hands-on Activities
Learn How Plants Grow
Build observation skills with this hands-on garden activity. First, create your miniature garden.
Make a Wild Bee Hotel
Make a safe, snug shelter for buzzy little bees while learning more about the role these important insects play in our environment.
Grow Seedlings in an Egg Carton
Try this activity to raise your plant from seed to seedling.
Play and Learn By Myself/Games
Express Your Creativity
Nature Cat
Color and create with this Nature Cat virtual coloring activity.
Molly of Denali Veggiezilla
Molly of Denali
Help Molly and Trini grow vegetables to eat.
Vegetable Planting
Sid the Science Kid
Click and drop the vegetable seedlings in the right sized boxes, then water them in the watering can and make them grow. Plant them all in the right-sized boxes!
Interactive Flower Garden
Curious George
Curious George is planting a flower garden. Flowers are popping up everywhere! Can you help him count the flowers in the garden?
Ready Set Grow with Abby and Elmo
Sesame Street
Join Abby and Elmo from Sesame Street in an exciting gardening adventure.
