The Little Food Forest Kit

About this printable

Everything in the Little Food Forest family in one download, for $7.50 less than buying them separately.

Read the story, spend four weeks doing real garden science, then color it all in. It's a gentle, hands-on way to teach kids where food comes from and how a garden can work like a forest.

WHAT'S INCLUDED (86 pages)

• June and the Little Food Forest: picture book (29 pages)

June and Nana turn a plain lawn into a little food forest over one year. Find Dot the ladybug on every page, read a true Nana's Note on every spread, then try 7 grow-along activities. Includes a family guide to growing your own food forest and a grown-ups' page.

• Little Food Forest Unit Study (34 pages)

4 weeks, 12 hands-on lessons, each with a plan for the grown-up and a worksheet for kids: sun detective, rain gauge, soil shake test, soil safari, compost, inside a seed, the 7 layers, bean diary, garden helpers and bug hotel, a rain-runoff experiment, and seed packets to share. Plus vocabulary cards, a nature journal page, an answer key and a certificate.

• Color the Food Forest: coloring book (23 pages)

14 story scenes in line art with Dot hidden in each, 2 color-by-number pages and 3 draw-your-own pages.

What you get

• 2 zip files: one with all three PDFs in US Letter, one in A4
• Unzip on a computer, or in your phone's Files app
• Print at home; most activity and coloring pages work in black and white

This is a digital download. Nothing will be shipped. Download from Purchases and Reviews on etsy.com in a web browser (the Etsy app can't download files).

Good to know

• Ages 4–10: read-aloud for little ones, lessons and experiments for older kids
• Simple materials: jars, soil, beans, leaves, a stick and sunshine
• Family license: print as many copies as your household needs. Co-ops and classrooms: please buy one copy per teacher. Please don't resell or share the files.