With its long, sunny days, July is a prime time for tending to the garden. From sowing last batches of seed for this season to helping established plants are look their best, here are some jobs for this month.

Create your own beautiful plantable seed tags! Add flower petals and you'll have a beautiful decorative card for now, and flowers for later!

Summer is here and with the solstice on June 20th marking midsummer, why not take a moment to pause, appreciate your garden and the beauty of nature in this new season. Then, it’s back to work as you take on some of the jobs for June!

This is a really fun experiment showing how little boats made of leaves can be powered by ballpoint pen ink!

This is a great activity for creating leaf prints with watercolour paint.

If you’re planting out new plants in your garden or in pots this season or sowing seeds directly outdoors, then these garden stick plant markers are a must have!

Crystallised flowers make great decorations for cakes and biscuits and they’re really easy to make!

Not only are strawberries delicious and nutritious, but they are also relatively easy to grow, making them perfect for little green thumbs to cultivate.

These little notebooks bound with a twig and some twine and decorated with pressed flowers look just like they would belong to a fairy!

Branch weaving is a really lovely nature craft that can be adapted for children (and adults!) of various ages. You can use left over bits of yarn, ribbon, twine and even found nature items such as grasses and feathers to weave onto your branch loom.

Making string art is a really fun activity to do with children, especially if they like hammering things! They also make really lovely Valentine’s gifts.

Making decorations from mince pie cases is a fantastic way of turning waste into something useful and beautiful.

This advent calendar made with little envelopes is perfect for stuffing. It’s really simple to make and the envelopes look really lovely decorated with a little bit of greenery and other winter treasures.

An evergreen wreath makes a lovely natural winter decoration and its easier than you might think to make your own!

Did you know that female pine cones open and close depending on the weather? This activity is a great way to see this in action!

These clay mushrooms are such fun to make and look great in plant pots, adding a bit of whimsy!

Bulbs are great for gardening with children as they are so easy to grow and you’ll be rewarded with containers of beautiful flowers that can last for months!

These spooky jam jars are so much fun to make and they’re perfect for Halloween!