Create these beautiful plant markers in several styles for your garden using river rocks and acrylic markers.
The Secret Garden Handicraft: Plant Markers
In The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox is fortunate enough to have Dickon—gentle, nature-wise, and full of plant knowledge. With his help, the once-forgotten garden begins to bloom again, and Mary learns the names and habits of every growing thing.
But let’s face it: most of us don’t have our own Dickon! So what’s a modern-day garden dreamer to do? Create our own plant markers so we don’t forget!
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This 56-page PDF packet contains our free gifts to you: tea time recipes, nature cards, poetry copywork, “The Old-Fashioned Garden,” by John Russell Hayes, and “The Deserted Garden,” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in primary, elementary, cursive, and high school formats, poetry notebooking page, a picture study of Garden in Full Bloom by Percy Robert Craft, picture study notebooking page, PLUS a bonus art lesson from the Masterpiece Society!
This project is simple enough for kids to join in and makes your garden feel like a magical, living story. Whether you’re planting lavender, foxglove, or forget-me-nots, your hand-painted plant markers become part of the tale you’re growing. With these markers, you won’t forget what’s blooming—and you’ll feel just a little bit more like Mary, tending her special, “bit of earth.”
These whimsical, hand-painted plant markers are the perfect way to add a personal (and practical!) touch to your secret garden.
All you need are:
- Smooth river rocks or garden stones
- Acrylic paint pens We used these Ohuhu Acrylic Paint Markers
- A clear outdoor sealant
Follow our Plant Markers video tutorial here:
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles…”
The Secret Garden,
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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