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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Practical interests & handicrafts > Gardening: general interest > General
Gardening with children is hands-on outdoor education at its
finest. With abundant opportunities for experiential learning, the
garden is, in many ways, an ideal classroom, and an increasing
number of educational initiatives are recognising the many long-
and short-term benefits that come with a gardening program for
children. Growing Sustainable Children is an indispensable resource
for anyone already teaching in a gardening programme, for those
starting a programme, or for anyone working with children in a
garden or other outdoor setting as a homeschooler, community
organiser, or friend of the earth. The book includes a detailed
age-appropriate curriculum and activity listings from nursery and
kindergarten through high school, as well as a useful overview of
the history of gardening education and the evolving consciousness
of children.
Making big science topics just the right size for little readers as
we explore plants. Did you know that plants make their food from
sunshine? But that some plants eat bugs? And some plants have been
around since before the time of the dinosaurs? Plants are pretty
amazing, and we'd like to tell you why... So sit back, and let
expert scientist and CBeebies writer Emily Dodd tell you all about
plants. With bite-sized text, facts to make you say 'WOW', and
easy-to-understand explanations, big science topics are now just
the right size for readers 4 years plus. Brilliantly illustrated by
Chorkung, this is the perfect little book for readers who are just
discovering all the AMAZING STUFF in the world around them.
In this exuberant and lyrical follow-up to the award-winning Over
and Under the Snow, discover the wonders that lie hidden between
stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt.
Explore the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the
course of a year! Up in the garden, the world is full of
green-leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But
down in the dirt exists a busy world-earthworms dig, snakes hunt,
skunks burrow-populated by all the animals that make a garden their
home.
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or
mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art,
the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you
need to make every element a model biosphere needs. Every project
has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at
home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and
craft equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker
Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through
creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a
space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and
biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that
constitute them. For children aged 9+, this illustrated series will
be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for
DT classes and clubs.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama had an idea. A big, inspiring, and
exciting idea! She would grow the largest kitchen garden ever at
the White House. This wouldn't be easy, since she'd never gardened
before. But where should she start? What tools did she need? What
would she plant? Everyone needs help when they're learning
something for the first time, even the First Lady of the United
States. So she gathered the help of local students, the White House
staff, and even President Barack Obama. Together, they wouldn't
just grow a garden--they would inspire a nation!
This title offers fantastic gardening ideas for 5-12 year olds,
from growing fruit and vegetables and fun with flowers to wildlife
gardening and craft projects. It includes 120 fabulous projects,
with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and more than 1200
stunning photographs to help children learn all about how plants
grow. It includes topics ranging from edible treats and flower
power to handicrafts, wildlife gardening and indoor ideas, as well
as a useful directory of the most popular garden plants. It is the
winner of the prestigious Garden Media Guild Practical Book of the
Year Award. Getting your hands dirty and growing your own fruit,
vegetables, herbs and flowers in the garden is great fun. From
flowering wellies, grotesque gourds and bird baths to wind chimes,
butterfly pots and grass head men, there is a huge range of
exciting projects that you can do in and out of the garden,
whatever the weather. The book contains chapters covering everyday
techniques, fruit and vegetables, craft projects, wildlife
gardening and indoor gardening, plus a directory of plant profiles.
Clear instructions and beautiful photographs make following the
projects easy, while tips and growing ideas provide inspiration and
encourage experimentation.
This interactive book helps children understand plants and how they
grow. Children can use their pen to label diagrams of plants, find
out what plants need to grow, look at reproduction, pollination and
habitats and identify different plants. The durable, wipe-clean
pages allow children to practise again and again, as they learn
valuable skills.
So begins this lyrical tribute to the bugs, bees, and birds that
make the garden such a busy place. With each turned page, more
visitors appear, and all the while the "surprise"-a
chrysalis-changes unnoticed until, on the last page, a butterfly
emerges and flies away across the garden's well-tended borders.
Back-of-book notes about the natural histories of the garden's
denizens complete this lovely and lively portrait of backyard
nature, which is also a gentle meditation on the rewards of paying
attention. A chipmunk hides on every page to divert and engage
young readers. Fountas & Pinnell Level O
Craft meets STEAM in these lively books that will help you design,
build and create! Get ready to build your very own biosphere or
mini-garden! From fountains to greenhouses grounds and grass art,
the step-by-step projects will give you all the instructions you
need to make every element a model biosphere needs. Every project
has been designed to work using things you can find lying around at
home, like disposable containers and packaging, and basic art and
craft equipment. Why not check out the other books in the Maker
Models series? Each book focuses on a place and will go through
creating various parts of the structure. You could learn to make a
space centre, a fairground, a transport hub, a mini-garden and
biosphere or a theatre and film set and all the elements that
constitute them. For children aged 9+, this illustrated series will
be great for rainy days and science days and a good inspiration for
DT classes and clubs.
A humorous search-and-find book - enjoy the magic changing pictures
on every page as you search for Little Dog om the allotment and in
the garden centre! Can You See Little Dog? is perfect for sharing
with young children. With rhyming text and lots to spot, have fun
exploring the busy scenes together - and pull the tabs to see them
magically transform! Featuring bright and humorous illustrations by
Emilie Lapeyre, Can You See Little Dog? has plenty for children to
talk about, encouraging early reading and story-telling skills and
introducing early learning concepts. Enjoy more search-and-find fun
in Can You See Little Elephant?
This adorable first gardening book taken young ones through sowing
and growing delicious fruit, vegetables and edible flowers on their
very own Flowerpot Farm. Simple step-by-step instructions are
presented in a delightful picture-book style. There are a mix of
projects on offer, suitable for gardening spaces of any size, from
large gardens to small window ledges. To achieve the best harvest,
the young farmer is shown how plants are pollinated, and how to
encourage good garden guests, and discourage garden pests. There
are cute craft ideas for customising your flowerpot farm, such as
decorating pots and making a bird feeder, and tasty recipes for
making the most out of your homegrown harvest are included.
This title includes fantastic ideas for making things, growing
plants and flowers and attracting wildlife, with 60 practical
projects and 175 photographs. It offers over 60 fun, child-friendly
projects for gardening, with ideas for cultivating flowers, growing
fruit and vegetables, making crafty projects and attracting
insects, birds and animals. It contains an introduction with all
the gardening basics includes advice on safety, equipment,
understanding plants and a guide to commonly used gardening terms.
It helps you grow a hyacinth in a glass, have tomatoes tumbling
down the wall, spell your name in flowers, shape a den out of
bamboo and make a mini-beast shelter. Every project features an
at-a-glance 'you will need' list, growing times and a star rating
guide to show you how easy or hard it is. Each idea has simple
step-by-step instructions and there are over 175 fantastic colour
photographs showing you what to do. A list of popular plants shows
how to grow and use the plants in the book and many others,
including where they like to live and how they like to be treated.
Growing plants and making things for the garden is endless fun.
This book is bursting with planting and gardening ideas to suit
children from the ages of 5 to 12. It offers an introduction that
arms the reader with all they need to know about plants, soil and
tools. Then, over 60 step-by-step projects have ideas for doing
things indoors, growing fruit, vegetables and flowers, making
crafty bits and pieces for the garden and encouraging wildlife to
visit. Whatever the weather, here are masses of ways to keep you
occupied in and out of the garden, with fun activities for all
children, from tiddlers to safari explorers.
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