Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening (A Kid's Guide series) (Paperback)

by Laurie Carlson (Author) "Plants need soil, water, sun, and air in order to live and grow..." (more)
Key Phrases: mold plants, plant labels, plastic milk jug, Native Americans (more...)

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"Fun and creative." -- BC Parent

These gardening projects are so simple, quick and fun, anyone can their brown thumb in to a green thumb. -- Grit Magazine

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“Fun and creative.” —BC Parent

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Product Details Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1st edition (March 1, 1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 155652238X ISBN-13: 978-1556522383 Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #61,462 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books) Popular in these categories: (What's this?) #5 in  Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Nature > Gardening > Nonfiction #6 in  Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Agriculture

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• Seeds of Change by Hobhouse Henry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• Country Diary Book of Creating a Wild Flower Garden by Jonathan Andrews in Back Matter
• Messy Activities and More by Virginia K. Morin in Back Matter
• The Praying Mantis by Karen Blue on page 52
• Ecce Romani: Meeting the Family Bk. 1: a Latin Reading Course by Scottish Classics Group in Back Matter

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1st edition (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155652238X
• ISBN-13: 978-1556522383
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #61,462 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

  #5 in	Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Nature > Gardening > Nonfiction
  #6 in	Books > Children's Books > Science, Nature & How It Works > Agriculture

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and full of great ideas!, June 7, 2008

By	home school mum (Bolton, UK) - See all my reviews

I love this book. Yes, much of the information can be found online, but I wouldn't have thought to look up some of these things.

If you're already an experienced gardener, this book may be a waste of time, but if you're a beginner and want to get your kids involved, it's great for motivating the 'budding' gardener.

This book is full of ideas for making gardening tools and materials using everyday household objects, like empty milkjugs (you can do many things with those!), muffin tins, 2-liter bottles, egg cartons, etc. There are recipes for natural, homemade bug sprays, pest strips, composting, and more.

I found it informative as well. There are bits of information about butterflies and how to attract them, weeds, worms, pests, helpful plants(what grows well with what) and critters, growing plants from leaf cuttings, tasty recipes using things you've grown, making herbed butter, starting your outdoor garden, growing seedlings indoors, making birdfeeders, gourd rattles, catnip bags, and lots more good stuff...and all using things you have around the house.

A great resource for the beginners and kids who like crafty things.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 101 Ways to Use a Milk Jug, January 28, 2009

By	Crease in the Page (Hills of Northern California) - See all my reviews

I never knew milk jugs were so versatile! They can me made into shovels, totes, watering cans, scarecrows, bird-feeders... This book offers creative, inexpensive ways to teach kids about gardening and plants in general. What a great way to learn!

All the lessons involve a hands-on activity, not just for fun, but for learning. Kids learn how plants absorb water by putting food-coloring in the water of a cut white carnation. Kids learn that some birds help plants by eating bugs, but some birds eat fruit; hence, the milk-jug scarecrow. Seeds are sprouted in a baggy in a window to demonstrate roots, stem, leaves, and how it all starts. Then, of course, there is plenty of standard gardening activities: starting seeds indoors in paper egg-cartons, planting outdoors after frost, watering, composting, mulching... There are a few ideas I never would have thought of, for instance, collecting different seeds around the neighborhood just to watch the ways different weeds sprout and grow--in containers, of course.

This book has a very organic approach to gardening, teaching kids to maintain topsoil, make bug-spray from garlic...

I anticipate that my kids will be quite educated about plants and gardens by the time we finish this book. I also expect that my yard will look quite littered with milk jugs. But I'm glad this is not just a book about cutesy activities with plants. Real educational projects are usually a little messy; in this case, milk-juggy.

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book, July 14, 2009

A Kid's Review

Green Thumbs is an easy to understand and fun activity book. Not only do my children enjoy the book, my husband and I have found serveral creative ways to garden.