Children's Gardening and Nature Crafts Subscription Box

Inspiring children to connect with nature

Subscribe now and you’ll receive September’s box as your first box

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What's in the box

The boxes are for 3-8 year old's and will be delivered through your letter box at the beginning of each month.

Each box includes everything you need for four seasonal activities: gardening and nature crafts - along with instructions, nature news and a quiz aimed at teaching children about the seasons, plants, insects, birds, soil and rainfall.

All seeds are certified organic and biodynamic. We also provide organic peat free compost pellets in each box, to enable our subscribers to get planting immediately.

Activities have been created by qualified teachers and support the national curriculum with influence from Forest School, Steiner and Montessori education.

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How it works :

3 SIMPLE STEPS

 
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SIGN UP

Select a single or sibling box and the length you would like to subscribe for

 
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RECEIVE YOUR BOX

If there are still boxes available you’ll receive this month’s box, otherwise you’ll receive next month’s box at the beginning of next month - we’ll email you to let you know

 
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HANDS ON FUN

The box will be delivered to your door there’s no need to wait in for it as it fits through a letterbox

Save 10% OnYour First Box

Sign up today and receive 10% off your first box using code FIRSTBOX10 at checkout.

*This offer only applies to the month to month boxes, not the 3, 6 and 12 month gift subscriptions

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Why subscribe?

EDUCATIONAL, FUN AND EASY!

 
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Educational

The activities will help your children engage and connect with nature - helping them learn about and interact with plants, insects and the seasons.

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Fun

They will have fun growing their own fruit, vegetables and plants and creating their own crafts inspired by nature and the seasons.

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Easy

The boxes will be delivered to your door with all the seeds and materials needed for the gardening activity - there's no need for you to have a garden or tools. 

 

 

Give As A Gift

Choose one of our prepaid options of 3, 6 or 12 months

 
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Recommended by:

Mud & Bloom featured in Gardens Illustrated
Mud and Bloom featured in Country Living magazine

What others say :

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“I have subscribed to many subscription boxes in the past and can happily say this is by far the best. I would recommend it to everyone”

Clare Colvin

“We absolutely LOVE our mud and bloom boxes. We are a home educating family and follow a seasonal nature curriculum and go to weekly forest school sessions and the activities in these boxes compliment this beautifully. We often take them out with us and complete the activities in the woods, fields and gardens that we visit every week! They really bring learning about nature to life!”

Lucy Davies

“My 4 and 6 year old’s faces light up when our monthly box arrives...and so does mine! It’s well worth the money and we love the planting, experimenting and crafting! The quiz helps us to be more aware when out and about too”

Leanne Marie

The box contents is well sourced and ecologically friendly and there is no single-use plastic. The quality of the materials included is immense - we've had stockmar crayons, okonorm chalks, whole boxes of quality paints and pastels that last month's and month's. Oh my! It's like a monthly boost to our art box

Rachel Stevens

 
Summer holiday kids craft and gardening activities

August's box

 

August’s box activities include the following:

Grow your own organic spinach

Make your own Hapa Zome bunting

Grow organic calendula

Make a nature bracelet

Mini beast spotter

And our regular nature news and quiz

As always, the seeds are certified organic and biodynamic and the box and contents are plastic free and biodegradable where possible. We also provide organic peat free compost pellets in each box.

The rowan berries are out everywhere at the moment, I love them! Threading them is a lovely thing to do with young children. These necklaces were made using rosehips, rowan and hawthorn berries, but rowan berries are by far the easiest to thread. I’ve written a post on how we did it, see link in profile 🔼🌿. #rowanberries #naturecrafts #mudandbloom
Another lovely share of our August box hapa zome bunting activity by a subscriber (these photos were shared on our subscribers Facebook Group) 🌸🌿🌼. We’re almost sold out of August boxes now, we just have a handful left. We’re busy however preparing our September boxes, which we’ll be posting out at the end of the month #natureactivities #connectingchildrenwithnature #mudandbloom
We harvested our garlic today, which my five-year-old was very enthusiastic to dig up! The two of us had planted it together too #gardeningwithchildren #organicgardening #mudandbloom
Our allotment harvest today 🥕🌽. We also picked a big box of plums and two cartons of blackberries which I forgot to include in the photo 😊. We had a lentil stew with most of the vegetables in it for dinner this evening and we had a blackberry and plum pie for pudding! I do love eating freshly picked and home grown food #organicgardening #gardeningwithchildren #mudandbloom
Here’s another lovely photo of a Mud & Bloom subscriber with her nature bracelet, shared by @children_of_the_rainbow2 🌼🌿🌸. We’ve had SO many lovely photos shared this summer of people doing their Mud & Bloom activities! Check the hashtag #mudandbloom and you’ll see many of them there. For those unaware, we also have a private Facebook group for subscribers who maybe don’t want to share their photos publicly, but would still like to share and get support, ideas and tips from others in the group. #connectingchildrenwithnature #outdooractivities #naturebracelet
We just received this lovely feedback from a subscriber!! Thank you to all our subscribers who take the time to get in touch. We really appreciate hearing what you like about our boxes and also your ideas about how we can improve🌿🌼. . “Virtually impossible to improve on Mud & Bloom. I've tried almost all the subscription boxes for my three year old, and apart from the now defunct weekend box, none of them are anywhere near as lovely as mud and bloom. So much thought goes into them, not just the activities themselves, but the ethos of the boxes, the experience they give my child, the culture they promote. They're adorable and nurturing, ageless while being age appropriate for my child. Some boxes feel like they're designed to shut kids up, keep them out from under mums feet, but mud and bloom is all about connectedness and rootedness". #kidssubscriptionbox #connectingchildrenwithnature #mudandbloom
A Mud & Bloom subscriber looking very happy with her nature bracelet! 😊🌸🌿. This is one of the activities in our August box. If you didn’t get the box it’s very easy to make and a lovely simple thing to do, especially with younger children. You need: a strip of card and some double sided tape stuck down the card. You then loosely attach it around your child’s wrist and go for a walk and collect petals and leaves to stick onto the bracelet along the way. As you go you can discuss what they’re called, if you know the names of them 🌼🌿🌸. . You can still order an August box, via link in profile 🔼. Get 10% off your first box with the code FIRSTBOX10. #natureplay #summerholidayactivities #mudandbloom