Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden [Paperback]

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth,Gardening Lab for Kidsencourages 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 throughfun activities that are also lessons about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking. Have fun exploring:

• pollinatorsby making a pollinator palace out of bricks, sticks, twigs, bamboo, and pegboard.
• the basicelements of soil—sand, silt, and clay—by testing how well your soil drains with just a shovel, water, ruler, and timer.
• color theoryby 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 Kidsis the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new gardeners. Children ofall ages and experience levelscan be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises. So, slip on your muddy clothes, and get out and grow!

The popularLab for Kids seriesfeatures a growing list of books thatshare 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 acomplete materials list, clearstep-by-step photographsof the process, as well asfinished samples. The labs can be used as singular projects or as part of a yearlong curriculum of experiential3N