Gardening With Children

Klappentext Brooklyn Botanic Garden--home of the oldest continuously operating children's garden in North America--offers a groundbreaking handbook that helps parents, teachers, and community gardeners introduce kids to the pleasures of gardening. In addition to growing common plants from seed, children will become more aware of nature's cycles and earth's ecology, and enjoy a variety of fun projects.

Summary

Brooklyn Botanic Garden—home of the oldest continuously operating children’s garden in North America—offers a groundbreaking handbook that helps parents, teachers, and community gardeners introduce the pleasures of gardening to kids. In addition to learning the basics—including how to grow common plants from seed—young gardeners will be encouraged to discover nature’s cycles, become ecologically aware, and follow their inborn curiosity as they explore. It doesn’t matter whether kids have access to a large green yard or only to a windowsill planter: here are scores of fun projects that can awaken their sense of wonder about the natural world while nourishing cognitive functioning and self-confidence. Youngsters will love building a root-view garden from a milk container, making chlorophyll prints, constructing a hummingbird feeder, and more.
New in hardcover.

Product details

• Authors: Monika Hanneman, Monika/ Hulse Hanneman, Patricia Hulse, Brian Johnson, Barbara Kurland, Tracey Patterson
• Publisher: Union Square
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781889538907
• ISBN: 978-1-889538-90-7
• No. of pages: 119
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: BBG Guides for a Greener Plane; BBG Guides for a Greener Plane; BBG Guides for a Greener Planet
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Garten und Gärtnern, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Activities, GARDENING / General, Gardening / Horticulture