Tap a friend to hear their name. Tap again to open their storybook.

📖FriendsStorybooks you can listen to 🎮PlayListen, find and sort 🌱GrowPlant a seed and watch
Watch, then do

Who is playing today?

Pick your age. Watch one short video, then do the “Now you!” with a grown-up.

Storybooks

Every friend has a little book: how it grows or lives, what it gives us and why it is good for us.

Games

Play and learn

Short games for little hands, sorted by age. Every answer teaches one true fact.

Grow it

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Seed-to-plate learning · ages 2–7

Calm stories that make kids curious to taste.

64 friends from the garden and the farm. Each one explains how it grows, what it gives us and why it is good for us, read aloud in 8 languages. Then you get one small idea for the dinner table.

🐢Calm paceNo flashing, no shouting, no autoplay, no streaks.
🔎Careful factsEvery card is written from trusted sources. A review by a nutrition expert is under way.
🚫No ads hereWe never ask your child for any data.
🤝Honest about AICharacters made with AI tools. Stories and facts by people.
Learning by age

Three series, one garden

The same friends grow up with your child. What we teach and how fast we go changes with age, following early-years programmes (Montessori, EYFS, Head Start, Finnish and regional kindergarten curricula).

Tiny Garden · 2–3

One idea at a time

  • Colours, shapes, counting to 3, animal sounds, first words
  • 1–2 minutes, very slow, pauses so your child can answer
  • A real photo of the food next to the character
  • Ends with something to find or touch at home
Parent card (PDF) →
Stories · 4–5

A story with one lesson

  • Where food comes from, how it grows, counting to 10, feelings
  • 3–4 minutes, calm story and a sing-along
  • Little helper jobs: water, wash, set the table
  • Kindness: waiting your turn, sharing, saying sorry
Parent card (PDF) →
Explorers · 6–7

Why? How? Let's test it!

  • Quiz questions, “Did you know?”, counting in tens, first reading
  • Small experiments and recipes with a grown-up
  • A code in the video opens a garden game here
  • No points, streaks or prizes that push for more screen time
Parent card (PDF) →
1 · Watch togetherSit close. When the narrator asks, pause and let your child answer.
2 · TalkUse the 2–3 questions on the parent card. This is where the learning happens.
3 · DoEvery video ends with “Now you!”: a real thing to find, touch, wash or test.

In studies of children's TV, kids gained empathy and emotion skills only when parents talked with them about the episodes (Texas Tech, 2018). So every Kid Happy Garden video comes with a talk card.

This month in the garden

See the whole year
Why it works

Small, friendly, repeated

We do not promise that kids will eat everything. We make new foods familiar, and familiar foods are easier to try.

8–10×

Toddlers often need to meet a new vegetable 8 to 10 times before they accept it. Our friends come back again and again.

Meta-analysis, 2018 →
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Reading a picture book about a vegetable every day for two weeks made toddlers more willing to taste it.

Heath et al., 2014 →
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Children ate more when the story asked them questions and they answered out loud. So our narrator asks your child questions.

de Droog et al. →
Family profileWho are we cooking for?

Profiles are saved only in this browser. We keep a nickname and age range on this device, never a child's full name, birthday or photo.

Tonight's try

One friend, one tiny step

Pick a friend. You get a 5-minute plan: read, touch, taste. No pressure, no bribes.

    Taste passport

    Count the tries, not the bites

    Nana Mae's kitchen

    Recipes little hands can help with

    Simple dishes with our friends, sorted by age. Each one tells you what your child can do, which allergens it has and what to watch out for.

    Watch together

    Episodes

    Watch here without ads or autoplay. Each episode has questions to talk about, a “Now you!” task and a printable parent card.

    Free for parents & teachers

    A free starter pack for your child's age

    Three packs: Tiny Garden (2–3), Garden Stories (4–5) and Garden Explorers (6–7). Print, color, and stick them on the fridge next to tonight's food.

    For grown-ups only. We never collect children's data.
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    Printable packs

    Instant PDF download, A4 and US Letter. Print as often as you need for your family or classroom. Packs are in English.

    Winter Holidays Pack
    3 levels: 2+ · 4+ · 6+

    Winter Holidays Pack

    A cosy month with the garden friends.

    What's inside
    • 24-day countdown with tiny tasks
    • Snow Lab in 3 levels
    • 3 warm recipes
    • 12 gift tags and 2 thank-you cards
    • 4 winter coloring pages with colored examples
    • Winter Helper award
    $19Soon
    Garden Friends Bundle
    3 levels: 2+ · 4+ · 6+

    Garden Friends Bundle

    Our three favourites together. You save 4 $.

    What's inside
    • 64 Friends Flash Cards
    • Garden Memory Game
    • Nana Mae's Kitchen Mini Pack
    $15Soon
    64 Friends Flash Cards
    3 levels: 2+ · 4+ · 6+

    64 Friends Flash Cards

    Every garden and farm friend: a picture on the front, true facts on the back.

    What's inside
    • 64 picture cards
    • 64 fact cards (print double-sided)
    • Games for three ages
    Garden Memory Game
    3 levels: 2+ · 4+ · 6+

    Garden Memory Game

    24 pairs of friends to cut out and match.

    What's inside
    • 48 cards (24 pairs)
    • Card backs
    • Rules for 3 levels
    Nana Mae's Kitchen Mini Pack
    3 levels: 2+ · 4+ · 6+

    Nana Mae's Kitchen Mini Pack

    6 easy recipes little hands can help with: two for every age.

    What's inside
    • 6 recipe cards with allergens and safety notes
    • What your little chef can do
    • Kitchen rules
    • Shopping list
    • Little Chef certificate
    Meet Carly Carrot: Lesson Pack

    Meet Carly Carrot: Lesson Pack

    A ready 30-minute lesson for kindergarten and preschool.

    What's inside
    • Lesson plan
    • Easier (2+) and harder (6+) ideas
    • 2 worksheets
    • Class checklist
    • Take-home note for parents

    Payment and tax are handled by Stripe. You will see Link on your receipt.

    Screens, the healthy way

    A little screen, a lot of garden

    We built this site to be watched together and then switched off. Here is what health guidelines say, and what we do.

    👶Under 2

    WHO advises no screen time (video calls with family are fine). Read, sing and play instead.

    🧒Ages 2–5

    No more than 1 hour a day, less is better, ideally watched with a grown-up (WHO 2019, AAP). Not in the hour before bed.

    🧑Ages 6+

    Agree clear family rules: when, where and what. Protect sleep, outdoor play and family meals (AAP family media plan, the “5 Cs”).

    ⏸️No autoplay, no feed

    A video ends with a real-world task. Nothing starts by itself.

    🌳Break reminder

    After 20 minutes in the kids' area we suggest going outside or helping in the kitchen.

    🔒Private by design

    Grown-up account only. A nickname and an age range, never a full name, birthday, photo, voice, health data or location.

    Sources: WHO 2019 · AAP, the 5 Cs

    Schools & kindergartens

    A ready mini-curriculum

    🗂️64 lesson cards

    Garden and farm, one friend per lesson, the same 5 steps every time.

    🌍8 languages

    Great for mixed-language classes. Voice in all 8.

    📺Ad-free videos

    Classroom licence with videos, printables and a lesson plan.

    Questions

    Grown-up questions

    Is this made with AI?

    The character pictures and voice are made with AI tools. The scripts, facts and safety notes are written and checked by people. We say so openly.

    Is it free?

    Storybooks, games and episodes are free. Printable packs, picture books and classroom licences will be paid.

    What age is it for?

    Ages 2 to 7, in three series: Tiny Garden (2–3: colours, counting, first words), Happy Garden Stories (4–5: where food comes from, feelings, helping) and Garden Explorers (6–7: questions, experiments, counting in tens). The family profile changes with your child's age too.

    Which languages?

    Text and voice in English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic and one regional option for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro (BA · HR · RS · ME), which share one language.