Looking for garden fun this year? Well, what better way to enjoy your garden than to simply use the space that you created to have fun with your family and friends. In a nutshell, the garden is the place to dream, play, party, relax, and do so much more no matter what age you are. So, let’s explore those classically popular activities that have made the garden a place for fostering relationships through plain ‘ole fun.
You do so much work in your garden nearly everyday, whether it is a hobby or a way to feed yourself. It may be your beautifully created design of flowers and/or vegetables or a variety of neatly arranged plants you just hope to devour at harvest time.
Whatever it may be, your garden can still be a retreat for all sorts of non-gardening activities.
Hence, garden fun is great for yourself!
But, it’s even better when you include family, friends, neighbors, teammates, or other special guest. I’m going to share with you some popular garden activities you can enjoy.
This post is all about garden fun.
How Can I Have Fun in My Garden?
The garden is a perfect place for all kinds of fun. Just try out these 13 popular ways to make your garden the centerpiece, or simply highlight the beauty of your garden and/or the many kinds of things you’re growing.
1. Host an Event
You put a lot of work into your garden. If creating a beautiful garden is your focus, why not put its beauty on display with fun events?
•weddings
•graduations
•retirement parties
•baby showers
• concerts
•plays
These are just a few events that can have the magnificent backdrop of your garden.
So, go ahead rent some tables and chairs, decorate an arch with your very own flowers, get a caterer, add some music and of course invite some guest. Click lights to find some to make every event shine.
2. Movie Night
Pull out the lawn chairs, find a screen (or hang a white sheet on a wall in your garden), and break the piggy bank for a projector.
Don’t forget your best movies, popcorn, and veggie treats from your very own garden.
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Movie nights are a great way to enjoy your garden with neighbors, family, and friends.
3. Games
Everyone loves a good game —now pair that with your garden and adults and children alike will find your garden the place to be for:
Bocce ball or even the French game of Petanque, cornhole, croquet, chess, ring toss, giant 4 to score to name a few.
Just beware, unless your garden is huge, you don’t want games that require a lot of balls flying and feet trampling all over your precious garden.
However, you should just grow in such abundance to make sure if anything is damaged you don’t have to fret.
4. Dinner & Entertainment
There’s a mystery to be solved and your garden is the stage for all to enjoy their part in solving the crime after they dine on a fabulous meal complete with side dishes prepared with your garden harvest.
Sound thrilling? Well, your guest will probably think so as they are led by a professional game leader that you hired.
Dinner will never be the same as your guest will wonder when can we do this again?
Or change it to dinner and a live band with a vocalist that is sure to make your neighbors peek in.
All this while your vegetables, trees, and/or flowers create an atmosphere that wows your guest or gets them thinking why don’t they have a garden.
5. Educational Fun
If you’re like me, there is always something for you to learn in the garden —that learning doesn’t have to be just about gardening.
Oh, to be a kid again caught up in wonder!
The garden is a wonderful place for:
•collecting fireflies in a jar
•stargazing at night
•scavenger hunts
•workshops for garden friends
•instructor led exercising
•beekeeping
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There is so much to consider for learning in the garden for kids and adults.
The education is limitless since your garden is naturally an environment for endless learning.
6. Garden Tours
So, you think your garden is worth seeing? Well, even if you don’t think so…
there are many who would love to take a tour of your garden.
Fellow gardeners and even those without an interest in gardening for some reason find the possibility of a little seed produce the food we eat fascinating.
Or, how there is so much beauty in the variety of flowers you produce.
Even if you don’t have a show stopping layout people are curious to see what you’re growing and how you did it.
So, go ahead don’t be ashamed whether you just have a few pots or several acres of land full of growth to feed the masses.
Show it!
7. Birthday Parties
What joy a birthday party brings to all! The celebration in the midst of your garden invites people in to see your labor of love.
Including your garden in the decor truly expands the garden fun. Think:
•vases full of your cut flowers
•games using spare veggies
•piñata on the garden tree
•corn husk used to make dolls
•add flowers/herbs to drinks
8. Crafts
You don’t have to be a kid to love a good craft. Call up your family and friends, head to your garden, decorate a table with your flowers, provide garden themed crafts, beverages, and let the fun begin. You got this!
Some craft ideas include:
•painting terra cotta pots
•DIY bird feeders with pine cones, peanut butter, string, and seeds
•painting rocks to make garden creatures
•group decorating of a arch with flowers
Ideas are limitless. Use your imagination, recycle items, and most of all have fun!
9. Social Planting
Gathering some friends for special projects in the garden is always fun. Some activities that may interest you:
planting lasagna bulb containers.
plant a tree together
have a seed swap
trade perennials
winter sow in milk jugs
Chatting away with those who share your gardening passion can be so much fun.
Add these kind of fun projects, good food and refreshing drinks and you’ll have a day or night of special garden fun.
10. Create Your Shed
“She Shed” or “He Shed”
The shed is your space for personal garden fun, so make it all your own.
Choose a shed that fits your personality, paint it, furnish it, plant around it and make it your very own respite.
Your shed doesn’t have to just house your tools and supplies.
Turn it into your book nook, your personal planting zone, your place to slow down and rest or maybe not.
Your shed is yours…so if using it for garden work is a joy to you make your shed exacting what you need it to be— a place to do the work you love.
11. Add Fun Garden Decor
•wind chimes
•stone plaques
•gnomes
•garden fixtures
•statues
•metal bicycle planter
You can’t have garden fun without funny sayings and unique fixtures around that suit your personality or create a whimsical theme.
Cute stone animals, stone statues of children, metal bicycle, wheel barrels used as planters, water fountain fixtures, bird baths and more can add such character to your garden.
12. Host a Block Club Party
Whether for your personal garden or a community garden, a block club party is a great way to highlight your garden with lots of food, music, and activities.
13. Take Professional Pictures
Your garden is an excellent place to gather your family or yourself for some professional pictures.
It not only shows your handy work, but memorializes your special gifting, or hobby, or fantastic skills —hey, your green thumb!
Suprisingly, with so many people abandoning studios for a professional photographer who follows them around their favorite outdoor places, often a personal garden may be overlooked.
Yet, why not use your own garden and show all the fun you have in it?
