Gardening Methods

How do I decorate my backyard for a kids water party?

The theme is “garden,” so flowers and bugs. I have a large backyard with several ornamental pears. The kids are mainly preschool age. Do I just attach indoor decorations to the fence and hang things from trees? Not sure what to do, but I want it to look special.

I love the garden theme.

For my daughter we used lots of bright colored decorations, although we had an actvity party with trampoline etc.

I had xams tree lights up hanging from our trees. I hung up bunches or bright colored balloons all over the fence, trees, trampoline etc. Also streamers were hung where I could. Some of the balloons had faces painted on them, that could be flowers and bugs.

We made bunting and hung that up from tree to fence and on to the house. Also we borrowed some flags from a neighbor to hang up.

We set out lots of toy animals for effect, plus colorful towels. Meybe you can get lots of flowers, bugs, worms, spiders etc.

On the fence we hung up pictures printed from the internet of TV characters. For your perhaps lots of charcaters from the film Bugs Life..

Perhaps you could have a sandpit sand, which you can decorate with lots of bugs. Maybe you can hide ‘treasure’ in the sandpit as part of a treasure hunt.

The table too can be very colorful with a blue table cover and colorful plates, food and decoration. A colorful large bug could be the centerpiece.

I hope this gives at least some ideas that can help you.

Good luck!

Interview with preschool teacher/gardener Pam Chiriboga