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Australian animal succulent garden

May 23, 2019 By Kate Leave a Comment

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Make a decorative Australian animal themed succulent garden as a fun gardening project with kids.

This easy garden idea makes a fun small world for imaginary play or a lovely handmade gift idea for somebody special.

You might also like our frog habitat garden

Australian animal succulent garden. This is a fun gardening project to do with kids and makes a lovely hand made gift or small world for imaginary play #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities

Every time my mum comes over to visit she admires the dinosaur succulent garden on our front porch. The looks over at the Frog habitat garden and exclaims how well it’s doing. When she looks out the back door and sees the dead sticks in pots which make up our herb and veggie garden and the lush bunch of weeds in our garden beds she tells me to stick to succulents.

I do try hard, but sometimes I forget to water things and it’s a hot, dry country.

Succulents are the perfect plant for non-green thumbs because they are very forgiving and literally thrive on neglect. They love good drainage and plenty of sun, plus they don’t need to be watered daily so they do very well for me.

Because Mum loves our themed potted succulents so much Miss K and I decided to make her one for Mothers Day this year. She loved it!

Echidna in the Australian animal succulent garden we made

Bilby in our succulent garden with Australian animal theme. This is a fun gardening with kids project and makes a great small world for imaginary play or a handmade gift idea #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities


 

How to make an Australian animal succulent garden

It’s very easy to put your own creative spin on a succulent garden by adding rocks and a few plastic animals. We bought our Aussie animals from our local toy store for a few dollars each, but you can Succulent garden process steps

Add potting mix and plants.

Succulent garden steps

Water the plants in.

Succulent garden process steps

Map out where you want the water to go, and place a line of small rocks around it. Fill the inside of this outline with glass beads. On the outside of this outline add the earth coloured rocks or sand. Finally, add a few larger rocks for landscaping. We’ve used ones we collected from nature whilst out on a walk.

Then just add animals.

Australian animal succulent garden. This is a fun gardening project to do with kids and makes a lovely hand made gift or small world for imaginary play #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities

Kangaroo in our succulent garden with Australian animal theme. This is a fun gardening with kids project and makes a great small world for imaginary play or a handmade gift idea #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities

Easy gardening project for kids, make an Australian animal themed succulent garden in a pot. This is a lovely small world for inaginary play or a gorgeous handmade gift for somebody special #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities

You can make your succulent garden as big or small as you like. This one is fairly large, but if you choose a pot half the size you’d need less plants and it would work out cheaper to make. Succulents are also VERY easy to grow from cuttings so you could try that if you have some already in your garden.

Australian animal succulent garden

Bilby in the Australian animal succulent garden we made #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities

Easy decorative succulent garden featuring Australian animals

Materials

  • A wide, shallow pot
  • Rocks for drainage
  • Cactus & Succulent potting mix (or you can also mix ordinary potting mix with sand to create your own cactus mix)
  • Succulents
  • Rocks to decorate
  • Earth coloured rocks or sand
  • Blue glass beads

Tools

  • gardening hand tools
  • hose

Instructions

  1. Place rocks in the base of your pot to assist with drainage.
  2. Add potting mix and plants.
  3. Water the plants in.
  4. Map out where you want the water to go, and place a line of small rocks around it. Fill the inside of this outline with glass beads. On the outside of this outline add the earth coloured rocks or sand. 
  5. Add a few larger rocks for landscaping. 
  6. Add animals
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Category: Gift ideas

More garden activities kids will love

  • Make a succulent fairy garden
  • Use items from your garden to create gorgeous garden “earth art”
  • A dinosaur garden is another fun small world garden you can make with kids
  • This easy frog habitat garden was put together from what we had at home
  • Make some recycled lid sun catchers to hang in a tree outside
  • These garden rocks in a drawstring bag are a fun way to inspire imaginary play

Australian animal succulent garden idea. This is a fun gardening with kids project and creates a gorgeous small world to invite imaginary play. It is also great for a decorative potted garden idea with an Australian animal theme and makes a beautiful handmade gift #succulents #succulentgarden #smallworld #gardeningwithkids #australiananimals #gardening #kidsactivities #handmadegifts

 

 

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