African Gardens
Making an ‘African Garden’ is a great way for your pupils to learn about the lives of children in Africa through fun, hands-on activities. Use our lesson ideas, starter kits and videos to get your pupils finding out more about growing plants, the environment, recycling and healthy eating.
Get started by building a Bag Garden, and then add to your ‘African Garden’ by constructing tip-tap handwashers, growing sunflowers or by making a Keyhole Garden!
“It’s great when children get into gardening. And helping them learn about children gardening in Africa at the same time is fantastic!”
Christine Walkden, Gardener, The One Show
Starter Kits
Our Starter kits make life easy for you, by providing all the basics, including lots of advice and related resources for a successful project. Find out more about what you could put in your African Garden and what’s in the kits.
- Bag Gardens – small gardens in a sack - great for small people!
- Keyhole Gardens – circular raised beds with a compost core.
- Tip-taps – ingenious, recycled handwashers.
- Sponsored sunflowers – help African farmers as your African Garden grows.
Learning resources
We have lots of supporting materials online, with lesson ideas, children's stories and galleries of images to help add to learning.
Why not start with:
- Bag Garden Powerpoints to introduce them to your class
- The African Gardens area on our kids website, Cowforce.com
- Resources on our teachers website, Cowfiles.com
You can also find out how you can link in your African Garden with our exciting new fundraising resource, based around an art display, called 'Build an African Farmyard'.
