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Tom Thumb Garden
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French Cricket
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One-Metre Safari
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Whittle a Toasting Fork
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Let Rip with the Hose
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XXXtra Strong Bubble Mix
Geyser Gush

Tom Thumb Garden

One to keep under tens occupied for hours. All you need to start is a baking tray lined with silver foil.

This is small-scale garden design, and If the kids need inspiration, suggest they build a fairy garden or farmyard, a dinosaur forest or a moonscape for an alien invasion.

Using the baking tray, they go round the garden filling it with soil, grass, moss, flowers, twigs, shells, stones, bark – whatever’s to hand – to turn their miniature outdoor space into a magical place.