Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids

Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own-inside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, eachaccompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups willdiscover 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 artis includedwith quick and simple lessons onecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But forkids, 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 withfamily and friends or display on abedroom shelf. With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide toTerrariums for Kids, everyone in thefamilycan 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 withcarnivorous 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 creativitywith a dash of hands-on science. Andyou get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?