Age 2 YearsSubject Nature & TalkClass School GardenDuration 3–5 minutes
A garden is full of things with names: the tree at the gate, the watering can, the wheelbarrow, the bench where you sit. Twelve garden things, one big picture at a time.
Nothing to prepare and nothing to read. You say the name, your toddler points or wanders over — a moment on a card counts, and the real garden can wait for your next walk.
Eight little steps, in order: a welcome from your teacher, all twelve garden things, a name-it-as-you-go walk, solve the garden things on paper, cards to print, a note from your teacher and one last check-in from you. Stop after any step — that is a complete class.
1 Teacher welcome
2 Meet the garden things
3 Around the garden
4 Solve the sheets
5 Take it off screen
6 Print the cards
7 Teacher note
8 Parent review
TEACHER WELCOME
“Let’s look around the garden! What things can we name together?”
Twelve garden things, one at a time. Say the name clearly, and let your toddler point, wiggle or wander along.
Card 1 of 12
Or simply scroll: all 12 cards are below.
TOGETHER · AROUND THE GARDEN
Around the garden.
Where each thing lives and what it does — a little tour for your next walk outside.
Tree
“Standing at the gate or in the park — bark to touch, leaves to peek at.”
Watering can
“By the tap or the shed, ready for plant drink time.”
Fence
“Around the edge — follow it all the way round the garden.”
Garden bench
“In a sunny or shady spot — the best seat for a snack.”
Wheelbarrow
“Tipped by the shed — one wheel, two handles, big jobs.”
Grass
“Under your feet everywhere — bare toes love it in summer.”
SOLVE THE SHEETS — ON PAPER OR ON SCREEN
Solve the garden things cards together.
The twelve garden things print two to a page, straight from your browser. Printed, cut and named, they are the collection’s real worksheets — and on screen, every card page can be drawn on directly.
01
Print the cards
Open the printable cards and print all twelve, two to a page. Cut them out together, naming each garden thing as it is cut.
02
Name what it does
Every garden thing has a job — the watering can pours, the boot splashes. Say the job with the name.
03
Find them at home
A watering can, gloves, a flowerpot — the house and the shed are full of these twins. One real find per card is plenty.
04
Draw the tools
Pick a favourite card and draw it on paper — or on its card page with the Write & Color layer.
Every card page has a Write & Color layer: your child can draw right on the card with a finger, a stylus or the mouse, then save the finished work. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
TAKE IT OFF SCREEN
A name-it-as-you-go garden walk.
Take the names outside — or to a park, a balcony or a window box if a garden is far away.
Try one today
Water a plant together — pss-pss with the watering can or a cup.
Touch the tree trunk on your walk and say tree, big tree.
Sit on a bench and name three things you can see from it.
Spot a fence, a wheelie bin, a gate — garden words live on every street.
Dig in a sandpit or a pot of soil with a spoon — your own little shovel.
Real tools are grown-up tools: shovels and rakes and hoses stay in grown-up hands. Watching, naming and your own spoon-digging is the toddler version — with a grown-up close the whole time.
PRINT THE CARDS
Print the garden things cards.
Print the cards for simple naming games and garden-walk warm-ups.
From the tall tree to the bench where you rest — what a garden full of names. However many rounds you played, however long it took, that was the whole class — and stopping early is allowed too.
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FLASHCARDS
Prefer printed cards?
The cards from this class also live in the flashcards library — every card has its own page with the picture, the words to say together and a download button, ready for away-from-screen time.
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