Gardening Lab for Kids

Help kids learn to grow their own patch of earth with 52 fun, plant related activities set into weekly lessons. Gardening Lab for Kids starts with reading maps to find your heat zone, then moves through seeds, soil, and composting before building up to garden art and appreciating the natural world around you.

• Pollinator project: build a pollinator palace from bricks, sticks, and bamboo
• Soil science: test drainage using just a shovel, water, and a timer
• Color theory: create a tabletop color wheel from colorful annuals
• Bird watching: make a bird feeder from an old picture frame and screen
• Flexible use: works as lesson plans for new and experienced gardeners alike
• By Renata Brown. Paperback, nonfiction, 136 pages