Create Play Grow with Kids

Cultivate curiosity with fun activities for kids at home these holidays!

A range of online activities, encouraging kids to look closer, explore and discover more about the natural world.

Pick from the fun activities below to get started!

To watch and explore

Extreme Adaptation

Plants and animals take adaptation to a whole new level! Grab a front-row seat to a science show that shares how they’ve been doing it for thousands of years.

A Story of Adaptation

Follow four little seedlings in a puppet play adventure through the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, and learn how they have cleverly adapted to certain areas of the country.

Taste and Smell with Billie

Explore your sense of smell and taste

Sight, Hearing and Touch with Billie

Explore your sense of sight, hearing and touch

Play and Plants with Billie

Explore and learn about plants through play

The Bees' Knees

Bee entertained - Theatre for Kids

Watch how to build a cubby

Pollinator Portal

Sing along in the pollinator patch

To look, make and grow

What animals will you find?

Can you find your prey like an eagle?

Craft your own digging tool!

What lives in the pond?

Collecting Tinder

Find the perfect fuel for your fire.

Charcoal Leaf Drawing

Take your craft sessions outdoors

How to Plant a Tree!

A step-by-step guide to plant your tree.

Make a Cubby House

Construct your own shelter by following this step-by-step guide

Girl in tree

Let’s explore the canopy!

Let's go for a Nature Walk

Country is an important part of First Nations culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People did their best to be good stewards of the land and sea. Use this activity to go on a nature walk to observe and listen to Country.

Sprouting Seeds

Being good stewards of the land and sea includes taking care of and managing plants and their environment. Why not try sprouting your own seeds at home?

Natural artworks

What lies outside your door or window? How can your backyard inspire an original artwork?

Garden Safari – the Royal Botanic Garden

What’s the world’s most dangerous fruit? What super-nutritious plant is set to blast off into space? Go on safari and find out!

Bracelets

Weave a bracelet

Let's recycle discarded charging cables by weaving a bracelet!

Family under tree fern

Tree Trail - Australian Botanic Garden

Get ready to go on a sensory adventure through part of the gardens using smell, sight and touch!

A sand path in the bush.

Woodland Treasure-hunt

Go on a bush-walk without leaving your house!

A fly trapped in a carnivorous plant

Can you SNAP as fast as a hungry meat-eating plant?

Girl looking out of a window.

From my Window...

Let's send our minds outside to play!

Girl with a magnifying glass.

Going on a Bug Hunt

We're going to catch some amazing ones!

A mud map drawn in the sand.

Take a bird's eye view of our beautiful world.

Girl balancing on a log.

Obstacle Course

Make your own physical challenge!

Boy outside looking around.

Sit and observe the world around you...

Boy building a tower with sticks.

Tower of Sticks

Towers and hours of fun!

Native bee and flower.

A place to stay - for your six-legged friends!

Boy showing a blue and red died egg with leaf print.

Create coloured eggs with natural plant dyes!

Boy with potatoe stamp playing tic-tac-toe

Potato Tic-tac-toe

Create stamps and play a fun game of tic-tac-toe.

Craft baby Echidna in garden next to pond.

Make your own baby echidna!

Red and green sticky trap carnivorous plant

Carnivorous Plant Quiz

Are you a carnivorous plant expert?

Growing seeds in Recycled Containers

Community Greening and Aboriginal Education Officer Brenden Moore shows us how to recycle plastic containers to grown our own seeds.