How Does Your Garden Grow?: Great Gardening For Green-Fingered Kids

by Clare Matthews, Clive Nichols

Help children cultivate their gardens--and grow beautifully along with them. These 40 rewarding projects take youngsters away from the TV and out into the fresh air, to channel youthful energies in exciting new ways. And parents share in the fun, too--whether it's helping to grow an herb garden in a box or making a mosaic sundial. Introduce budding gardeners to the satisfaction of planting and harvesting their own vegetables and flowers, the creative challenge of carving gourds, and the scientific experience of building a weather station, as well as the opportunity to explore the wonders of nature, right in their own backyards.

Genres: Gardening

144 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2005

Reviews

[Isobel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is fantastic for inspiring children to enjoy gardening. This book is split into four sections: fun with plants, growing food, wildlife in the garden and things to make and do, such as growing flowers and plants that are smelly, harvesting flower seeds, growing pips and seeds from fruit, creating a celebration tree, creating a cactus and succulent pot, creating a peanut ring and funky bird feeder for birds, mosaic birdbaths, flashing bird scarer, willow den and pot decorations. These activities will be exciting for children and they will encourage children to enjoy nature and reuse natural and recycled materials to create useful gardening resources.

[Karyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for ideas on encouraging kids to garden. There were some really cute projects, and I will check the book out again so we can make a few.

[Toni · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would say about 1/2 of the ideas were things that I would actually do at home with the kids.