Inspiring children to connect with nature

Boxes start at £8.95 a month plus FREE shipping

Subscribe now and you’ll receive May’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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What others say :

TESTIMONIAL - DO NOT DELETE

“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

“We loved our first box. We had massive excitement when my son realised the box was for him. The contents are well presented and the wrapped items were opened with glee. The little stone mushroom was carried around all day. The instructions are easy to follow and you don't need a lot of extra kit, unless you want to. The expanding pellets were 'magic' to my two year old. We're gathering bits for our miniature garden next. We can't wait for our next box. Thank you Mud & Bloom”

Fiona Cresswell

“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

 
easter and spring nature activities

April's box

 

This month’s activities include the following:

Make your own batik eggs with spring leaves and flowers
Rainwater activities: make a water cycle bracelet and watch a puddle disappear
Grow organic wheat grass
Grow organic carrots
Woodland spotter
And our regular nature news and quiz

Decorating our Easter branches that we cut from our garden this morning. Wishing you all a very happy Easter weekend, hopefully you’ll be spending lots of it outdoors! 🌿☀️🦋 #easterbranch #happyeasterweekend #mudandbloom
Have you been on a walk in the woods recently? Everything is looking so beautiful right now, lots of pretty ferns unfurling and so many shades of light green on the trees. I went for a walk with my children yesterday and we picked handfuls of wild garlic too #ilovespring #woodlandwalk #fernsunfurling #getoutside
We have finally made a decision and the winner for the best #mudandbloom photo shared in March was this lovely photo by Mud & Bloom subscriber @emmajgibb! Thank you Emma for sharing it and to everyone else for sharing your photos! We had some especially lovely photos shared in March of people’s wind chimes. I’ve just worked out how to share other people’s photos on stories, so I will start doing more of that 😊. . I can’t say how much I appreciate you all sharing your photos, apart from the fact that we love seeing them, I don’t think Mud & Bloom would exist if it wasn’t for word of mouth recommendations by our subscribers. So thank YOU!! 😊😊 Each month the person who shares the best Mud & Bloom photo using the hashtag #mudandbloom on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter will win a box for themselves or a friend. . For any subscribers unaware, we have a private Facebook group that is beginning to become quite active and it’s exclusively for Mud & Bloom subscribers to ask questions and to share their experiences, thoughts and ideas around connecting their children with nature 🌿🌈 #photocompetition #connectingchildrenwithnature #kidssubscriptionbox
I love these Chinese redbuds #nofilter #cercischinensis #springblossom #majorca
Have you planted any vegetable seeds yet this year? We’ve so far planted wild tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic and broad beans and these carrot seeds. Not as much as I would have liked to have planted by now, we still have a few other things we’re hoping to plant 🌱🌱. . We provide one lot of vegetable seeds in each month’s Mud & Bloom box, these carrot seeds are in April’s box. All our seeds are certified organic and our last few boxes have also been Demeter certified biodynamic, which we’re hoping to continue to provide each month. #growingvegetables #gardeningwithchildren #organicgardening #mudandbloom
Our bird of the month in April’s box is the chaffinch, which has been beautifully illustrated for us by @antlerwildling 🐧🐦. Have you spotted any yet this spring? Chaffinches stay in the UK all year round and can be seen and heard in woodland, among hedgerows and in parks and gardens. If you want to attract them to your garden, try leaving mealworms and suet out for them. They will often want to feed under bird tables rather than actually on them. They start to have chicks in April #birdwatching #chaffinch #mudandbloom
Aren’t these little pots pretty? I would love to have a beautiful garden with little touches like this in it 😊. I just don’t have the time to put much effort into our garden at the moment sadly, with three young children and a new business. One day my dream is to have a beautiful garden that I will have hours to potter around in...😊🌱🌱🌼 #plantpots #majorca #cactus