Gardening Lab for Kids

Description

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature. This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to find your heat zone, moving through seeds, soil, composting, and then creating garden art and appreciating your natural surroundings. Author Renata Fossen Brown guides your family through fun activities that are also lessons about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking. Have fun exploring: pollinators by making a pollinator palace out of bricks, sticks, twigs, bamboo, and pegboard. the basic elements of soil —sand, silt, and clay—by testing how well your soil drains with just a shovel, water, ruler, and timer. color theory by creating a table top color wheel from different colored annuals. native birds by making a bird feeder from an old picture frame and piece of screen. Gardening Lab for Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new gardeners. Children of all ages and experience levels can be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises. So, slip on your muddy clothes, and get out and grow! The popular Lab for Kids series features a growing list of books that share hands-on activities and projects on a wide host of topics , including art, astronomy, clay, geology, math, and even how to create your own circus—all authored by established experts in their fields. Each lab contains a complete materials list , clear step-by-step photographs of the process, as well as finished samples . The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential learning. The activities are open-ended, designed to be explored over and over, often with different results. Geared toward being taught or guided by adults, they are enriching for a range of ages and skill levels. Gain firsthand knowledge on your favorite topic with Lab for Kids. Review: Great for all ages - Got this for my 11 year old. There’s a good mix of labs for younger and older ages. There are some that involve making seed bombs, painting pots, how to make a photo press. The activities we’re doing with my son that is older are a water pot fountain and garden stepping stones. The pages are very organized with a supply list, instructions and pictures. Very well put together book! Review: Highly recommended by mom!! - I got this as a part of a Christmas gift this year for my nephew who's only 1 1/2 now so I knew it would be more of a present for his parents to use with him, I figured in a few years. But his mom just called & said she absolutely loves it!! Said there are so many wonderful ideas & projects that she absolutely cannot wait to get started. He loves the outdoors & she said she's starting now (mid February) to collect seeds so she'll have some ready to start with him in a couple months. She said there is a ton of helpful information in this book & that it's a fantastic resource - highly recommends this for kids!!