How to Make a Rock Garden With Your Kids
Are your kids fascinated by rocks?
Want a cool outdoor project that helps your kids express their creativity?
Create a rock and mineral garden to draw out the inner rockhounds in your family.
In this article I’ll show you how to collect rocks and minerals with your kids and create a beautiful rock garden together.
Why Build a Rock and Mineral Garden?
A rock garden is essentially a pile of rocks and minerals that you arrange in a beautiful or interesting manner.
When you build a rock and mineral garden with your kids, you’ll enjoy the thrill of the hunt; spend some fun time outdoors together; learn about geology, biology and relationships between rocks and minerals; and create something beautiful that comes from nature. There’s something for everyone.
The process of discovery itself will help adventure-seekers develop a love of science, while giving everyone a reason to focus on the world at their feet, from fungus to ferns to furry caterpillars.
There will be opportunities to throw rocks around too. Just be careful where you toss them!
