Gardening Lab for Kids
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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!!
| Best Sellers Rank | #251,653 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #83 in Children's Gardening Books (Books) #178 in Children's Science Experiment Books #238 in Children's Flower & Plant Books (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 198 Reviews |
D**A
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!
N**G
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!!
B**.
A Great Way To Expose Kids to Your Gardening Passion
My Dad and I learned to garden together over seventy years ago. The bond we shared because of it lasted a lifetime. This book has helped me share those times and that information with children and their parents today. I'm so glad I found it!
B**B
great series of Books- well done.
Well done book. Our Granddaughter age 7- loves it. Experiments easy to read and keep the interest in combining science. Each book in the series is well done and easy to understand. Just bought the Kitchen Lab for Kids for her birthday.
B**H
Gardening with kids
It is OK for Home gardening guarding related crafts. I was looking more for cricket, easy gardening activities for school use where you have limited time. If you are a first time gardener was small children, some great ideas.
V**N
This book was for 6 to 8 year old girls ...
This book was for 6 to 8 year old girls. There parents were thrilled with it - the children are enjoying it very much. Lots of interesting projects which Children and Parents can do together
J**M
Love this book!
Loved this book! It is well written and the photography is excellent. The projects themselves are realistic and fun, and can include several age groups. Love how the author pays special attention to recycling and repurposing items we would normally just toss out, only to end up in a landfill. Anyone with children could make good use of this book!
T**.
A Green Thumbs Up for this Book
Awesome, colorful and fun guide to great gardening projects. I recommend it for kids of all ages. Also makes a great gift for children or adults, as something they can do with their family. We are looking forward to lots of gardening fun this summer.
M**N
Five Stars
Lots of great ideas.
T**I
Five Stars
my kids and I are having lots of fun with this book
A**R
One Star
its garbage
R**L
a present for an early years teacher who loves to ...
a present for an early years teacher who loves to get kids muddy. Hopefully there will be some experiments in here that she has yet to have done.
S**V
Title is misleading
It's a basic gardening 'activity' book, the activities are fine and there are good photo's that accompany the instructions, but there are no actual experiments to carry out which is a little disappointing, I was expecting something a little less standard and with a bit more of a scientific edge considering the title of the book.
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