Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty [Hardcover]

Diane Rhoades (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995 | Age Level: 8 and up

This book provides gardening facts and inspires kids to get their hands dirty. Ideas include planting your own family tree, starting a garden in an old boot and making a trellis out of branches.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A fascinating book with over 50 easy, fun projects for kids of nearly all ages, including: growing potatoes in tires, building a gardening tool station, making a purple martin house from a gourd, and discovering the joys of composting. Clear, simple explanations of plant physiology, and discussion of other garden-relevant wildlife such as birds and bugs, make this a great teaching resource as well as a how-to book.

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6-At last! A fabulous book for readers who know little or nothing about gardening but long to create and enjoy a mini Sissinghurst at home. From selecting the right spot to building a stand for selling one's produce, Rhoades offers complete information. She suggests selecting plants based on what readers like to eat, smell, and look at, and clearly describes every step in planting from soil to compost and worms. Homemade (and very stinky) environmentally friendly bug spray solves pest problems without resorting to dangerous chemicals. The author describes how to make tools, includes easy crafts and experiments, and provides a pictorial index of easy-to-grow vegetables and flowers. Full-color photographs are clear and well placed to illustrate the text. One delightful photo shows a formal table setting of rinds and veggie remains that is a feast for the worms that enrich the soil. This title could easily answer just about any question a beginning gardener might have.
Carole B. Kirkpatrick, Terminal Park Elementary School, Auburn, WA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806909986
• ISBN-13: 978-0806909981
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garden Crafts for Kids, April 11, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty (Paperback)

Not only is this a great resource for kids, but also for beginning gardeners like myself. I was getting buried by the information in other gardening books...complex soil testing, amending, feeding, etc. This book takes similar information and makes it understandable and makes the results seem achievable. The info given on easy-to-grow vegetables, easy-to-grow flowers, and, especially, the chart for diagnosing and solving growing problems are VERY helpful. I found this at the public library and MUST have it at home!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a super resourse for both parents and teachers!, March 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty (Hardcover)

As a new first grade teacher, I found this book to be very helpful in planning my gardening unit that I did with my class. It includes all information that you would need as well as a lot of helpful hints for newcomers to the gardening world. This book also includes lots of ideas to try at home, from recycling to composting to eating what you grow-- super for science fair type projects!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fatnastic resource for parents of young gardeners!, March 6, 1999

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This review is from: Garden Crafts for Kids: 50 Great Reasons to Get Your Hands Dirty (Paperback)

I was incredibly blessed to have stumbled across this book in our public library. It has become one of those rare additions to our home collection. For beginner gardeners, or even the seasoned, there is an abundance of helpful information within the covers. The pictures are beautiful and captivating for children. The craft ideas are inexpensive, fun, and very practical. Highly recommendo!!