Books in Gardening Lab for Kids series

A refreshing source of ideas to help 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 13 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons. Renata Fossen Brown guides your family through fun opportunities learning about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build on experiences. The lessons in this book are open-ended to be explored over and over-with different results each time! So, slip on your muddy clothes, and get out and grow!

People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Color adds an irresistible dimension to any yard. Put a pair of wings on that color and suddenly your yard is alive with life! Butterflies live all over the country, so you re likely to see them no matter where you live. To attract butterflies to your backyard, you need to provide the things they like: nectar, water, sun, and shelter. For most of us, this is as easy as planting some wildflower seeds in a sunny spot. In just a few months, the tiny seeds have grown into huge, beautiful flowers that butterflies just can t resist. A butterfly log house for shelter is also easy to build. Everyone wins you enjoy the butterflies, and the butterflies get a satisfying home.

Imagine a miniature world under glass. It has growing plants and falling rain, yet it is small enough to sit on your bedside table. This miniature world is a terrarium, and you can build one of your own. Learn how to make a working water cycle and how to grow tropical plants. Get messy digging in the dirt. Have fun treasure hunting for the perfect container and building your own secret world. Be a scientist and study how plants grow, or use your imagination to create a world for dinosaurs. It s all possible when you learn how to make your own terrarium.

Your bug adventure starts here! Bug Lab for Kids is a collection of more than 40 fun activities for exploring the exciting world of arthropods, which makes up more than 90 percent of all animals on earth, including insects, spiders, centipedes, butterflies, bees, ants, and many others! Written by entomologist and educator Dr. John W. Guyton, this fascinating and informative book teaches young bug enthusiasts how to find, interact with, and collect arthropods safely.Begin Your Adventure. Learn how to dress to collect, start a field notebook, and use the scientific method, as well as the best places to look for bugs. Also, make and use an insect net, collecting jars, pitfall traps, and more, and investigate how to care for live arthropods.Preserving Insects. Find out the best ways to photograph insects, make a spreading board, and pin insects.The Most Common Insect Orders. Explore Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies and mosquitos), Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies), and many more.Other Arthropods. Conduct experiments with centipedes and millipedes, sow bugs and pill bugs, granddaddy longlegs, and others.Creative Projects. Re-create a paper wasp's nest with papier-mache, make a pitcher plant and fly game, and set up a butterfly watering station.Butterflies, Bees & Other Pollinators. Learn how to rear butterflies and explore their migration patterns, conduct a local survey of pollinators, host a honey tasting, and make a pollinator habitat.Turn a fascination for bugs into a love of science and nature with Bug Lab for Kids! 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.

Would you like to grow delicious vegetables, fragrant herbs, or colorful flowers without using chemicals that can harm the environment? If so, organic gardening is for you. In easy steps, this book will help you choose the right types of plants for the soil and sunlight you have in your garden, enrich your soil with natural products like compost, and prevent pests in ways that are not harmful to wildlife. It will even show you how to build your own worm composter. Organic Gardening for Kids guides you through the process of creating a special place that will not only provide you and your family with organic food and ornamental flowers, but also attract butterflies, birds, and other local wildlife.

People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Everyone loves a garden filled with bright colors, soft textures, and lovely smells. Add a little water to the mix and you have the perfect spot to relax and enjoy the best of nature. Relaxing by your water garden is the end of a long but rewarding process. Follow these step-by-step instructions for finding the best spot in your yard for a healthy water garden, designing and digging it, choosing water flowers, and adding fish. You can even build a toad house to attract wild visitors to your backyard. When all the designing, digging, lining, planting and stocking is done, you can sit in your own private oasis and enjoy nature s gorgeous bounty. Color, movement, scent it all adds up to life!

People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Riding bikes, hiking, and playing sports aren t the only things you can do in the great outdoors. If you d like a relaxing, rewarding way to spend time outside, you could start your very own flower garden. Follow these step-by-step instructions for preparing your garden plot and choosing flowers for shady and sunny locations, plus maintaining your garden by weeding, watering, and deadheading. Discover the difference between annuals and perennials, and find out what to plant to attract colorful birds and butterflies. Decorate your own gardening gloves and belt for carrying the tools you ll need to maintain a garden once it starts to grow. Whether you re planting in a big backyard or in containers that you can keep indoors, you can reap the rewards of successful flower gardening.

People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Landscaping designing a garden for a particular space is a lot like creating a work of art. From an ordinary piece of land, you can create a setting that invites people to stop for a minute, rest, and admire its beauty. Follow these step-by-step instructions for selecting a location and designing your garden; adding borders and a dramatic focal point; choosing the best plants for your design, soil, and climate; and caring for your landscaping once everything is in place. Keep track of all your plantings with personalized seed markers you can make yourself. The end result will be an attractive garden space that you can call your own.

People all around the world enjoy the hobby of gardening. They love planting tiny seeds in the soil and watching them sprout into mature plants. Gardening isn t just for adults, however. Kids can plan, create, and maintain their own gardens, too. Gardening for Kids is rich with ideas and instructions for making water gardens, flower gardens, vegetable gardens, perennial gardens, butterfly gardens, and landscape designs. Have you ever wished you could bring a rainbow to your backyard and keep it all summer? If so, you could plant your own perennial garden. It will bring bright colors and beauty to your house year after year, whether you fill a few pots or fill your entire backyard. Follow these step-by-step instructions for planting a perennial garden, from figuring out which plants will grow best where you live to where you should plant each seed. As little green shoots stick up through the dirt to greet the sun and then turn into colorful blossoms, you will be glad for every minute you spent on your garden. It s the best way to capture a rainbow of your very own!

Would you like to grow a patio full of soup? Grow your own jungle or make your house a rainbow of flowers? You can do all this and more if you learn how to build a container garden. You ll hunt in closets, trash cans, and basements to find great containers for your plants. You can grow everything from tiny roses to giant jungle leaves. You don t need a yard for your container garden. All you need are pots, cans, boxes, or baskets, a little dirt and some plants and your imagination.