Growing Something Brilliant: Our Summer Garden & Daily STEM Project

Summer 2025

This summer at Kiddo Club, we’re not just running a holiday programme — we’re growing something extraordinary. Literally. Our brand-new Kiddo Club Garden will form the heart of our daily STEM activity, giving children a chance to dig, build, investigate, and observe the natural world as it transforms around them.

Yes — we’ll still be building brilliant robots out of cardboard and racing to make the tallest Kapla tower, but this garden project adds something special. It’s slower, it’s hands-on, and it’s just as exciting.

🌿 Yes, Gardening Is STEM

You don’t need robots or test tubes to explore science, technology, engineering, and maths. In fact, a garden is the perfect place to do it.

From measuring the height of a sunflower to designing bug hotels, testing soil drainage, creating mini greenhouses, and observing pollinators in action, children will be investigating real-world questions through hands-on experiences every single day. It’s practical. It’s exciting. And it all happens outdoors.

Our STEM garden sessions are designed to be low-pressure, child-led, and totally engaging — with different activities each day that build both skills and confidence. No experience needed. Just curiosity.

🌼 What Will They Be Doing?

Here’s how the garden project unfolds across the summer:

  • Week 1: Prepare the beds, create colourful garden signs, and sow a mix of fast-growing flowers like calendula, nasturtiums, and wildflowers

  • Week 2: Begin daily care routines — watering, weeding, spotting sprouting seedlings, building bug hotels, and testing soil types

  • Week 3: Learn about pollinators with bee waterers, butterfly feeders, and scavenger hunts to spot garden visitors

  • Week 4: Explore garden engineering with DIY irrigation systems, mini trellises, scarecrows, and flower-pressing

  • Week 5: Celebrate our progress with garden awards, seed gifts to take home, and a big Garden Party Friday!

Each day includes a standalone gardening activity, so children who come for just one or two days still get to jump in and be part of something meaningful. For those who attend more regularly, it’s a beautiful slow-burn project — full of discovery and transformation.

🌱 Why We’re Excited

Because this isn’t just about flowers — it’s about giving children the chance to explore, observe, build, and create with their own two hands. It’s STEM that doesn’t feel like “learning” — it feels like fun.

And there’s something truly magical about seeing a child’s face light up when the seeds they planted start to grow.

Whether your child is coming for a day or a full week, they’ll get to be part of something special — a project that grows with them, teaches them without trying, and leaves them with memories (and flower seeds) to take home.

🌼 Book your child’s summer place today.

We can’t wait to grow something brilliant together.

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