Synopsis
" With A Family Guide toTerrariums for Kids, budding botanists and artists can build, plant, and grow their own living worlds under glass following 15 unique and inspiring terrarium plans. Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own-inside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups will discover how easy terrariums are to plant and grow. Kids love to create, imagine, and have fun. Nothing fulfills all three of those desires quite like designing and planting a terrarium. With the step-by-step project instructions found in A Family Guide toTerrariums for Kids, the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidence-building. Making these little landscapes develops motor skills, spacial awareness, and provides a wealth of sensory input. The science behind the art is included with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But for kids, its all about being active and building something cool! Plus, when the project is complete, theres a piece of living art to share with family and friends or display on a bedroom shelf. With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, everyone in the family can tap their inner ""science geek"" to: * Use multi-colored sand and succulents to craft a desert terrarium * Plant, trim, and tend a terrarium bonsai tree * Build a peat bog filled with carnivorous plants * Make an aquatic terrarium, complete with a marimo moss ball ""pet"" * Design a prehistoric garden of air plants * Create a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis * Grow a Japanese garden with living rocks With information on selecting the best terrarium container, growing materials, decorative elements, tools, and plants, readers are primed for success that lasts long after the terrarium has been built. Terrariums combine imagination and creativity with a dash of hands-on science. And you get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?", Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own--inside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups will discover how easy terrariums are to plant and grow. *As featured in The New York Times * Kids love to create, imagine, and have fun. Nothing fulfills all three of those desires quite like designing and planting a terrarium. With the step-by-step project instructions found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids , the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidence-building . Making these little landscapes develops motor skills , spacial awareness , and provides a wealth of sensory input . The science behind the art is included with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But for kids, it's all about being active and building something cool! Plus, when the project is complete, there's a piece of living art to share with family and friends or display on a bedroom shelf. With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids , everyone in the family can tap their inner "science geek" to: Use multi-colored sand and succulents to craft a desert terrarium Plant, trim, and tend a terrarium bonsai tree Build a peat bog filled with carnivorous plants Make an aquatic terrarium , complete with a marimo moss ball "pet" Design a prehistoric garden of air plants Create a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis Grow a Japanese garden with living rocks With information on selecting the best terrarium container, growing materials, decorative elements, tools, and plants , readers are primed for success that lasts long after the terrarium has been built. Terrariums combine imagination and creativity with a dash of hands-on science. And you get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?, With step-by-step project instructions for building unique and kid-friendly terrariums, family time has never been more fun! Crafting a terrarium boosts confidence, develops motor skills, and combines imagination and creativity with a dash of hands on science. Together you'll learn how to pick the best container for your miniature landscape, fill it with the best plants, and add decorative elements to make it your own. Plus, with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, kids and their grown-ups can both tap into their inner "science geeks" to grow a miniature world in glass. Includes fully illustrated plans to: Grow a Zen-like landscape with "living rocks", Set up a mini peat bog, complete with a collection of carnivorous plants, Make an aquatic terrarium with marimo moss balls (and maybe a fish or mini shrimp!), Go low-maintenance with a hanging terrarium of air plants, Build a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis, Use moss to craft tiny rolling hills in a mini mountain scene, Get prehistoric with a dinosaur bone terrarium, With A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, your family can be imaginative, have fun, and get growing-together! Book jacket., With A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids , budding botanists and artists can build, plant, and grow their own living worlds under glass following 15 unique and inspiring terrarium plans.