DIY: the best autumn crafts for you and your child (and green too)

Drizzling day? There are plenty of them this season. Fortunately, there is still plenty to tinker with. Just bring the greenery inside and create a beautiful bottle garden together, for example. And will the sun break through? Then there is also a lot to experience outside between the beautiful autumn colors.

Garden in my house

To work. Did you know that you can also create a garden indoors? Crafting a bottle garden, even for your own room, is educational and exciting. All you need is a glass bottle or jar and a few ingredients. And your child doesn’t even have to have a green thumb for it. After all, this bottle garden takes care of itself in the end. How to put this mini ecosystem together very easily you can tinker read here.

the farmer

Time to play outside. Creating a vegetable garden or container together is of course super educational and, above all, a lot of fun. You can sow or harvest vegetables or fruit in your vegetable garden at any time of the year. Even in winter. You can still sow these vegetables in the autumn: cress, rhubarb and winter purslane. The latter is a forgotten vegetable that you can use to make a delicious stew. Autumn is also the time to plant bulbs and sow seeds for flowers that bloom in early spring. Your garden looks nice early on, and it makes useful critters such as bees happy.

Treasure Search

Lovely autumn sun? In addition to chestnuts, go and collect waste with your child. With a cool squeeze stick and gloves on, your child can find the most beautiful ‘waste treasures’ (and throw them in the trash). May not sound very glamourous, but rest assured that your child will find this quite exciting. And of course very educational. At the end of the day, for example, a nice reward is ready at home for every bag of rubbish.

Conscious and sustainable handling of money

By doing fun and educational green activities together, your child will discover that nature is very important. How nice is it if your child’s money also contributes to a green future? If you place your child’s (savings) money with a sustainable bank, you can be sure that it is managed with respect for nature. For example, for children from 6 years old you can use a ASN Junior account to open. Your child will then receive his own debit card with a weekly limit and as a parent you can monitor the account. In this way your child learns to deal with money and at the same time you can easily do something good for nature. Because you don’t always have to make an effort to get more green.

You can find more great tips and sustainable activities at Asnbank.nl.