children's gardens

Features fifty-two activities for children that are centered around gardens and gardening.

Provides step-by-step instructions for projects readers can make for a garden, such as garden markers, a beaded wind chime, and a double-decker birdbath.

A complete guide for teachers, parents, and youth leaders to start gardening projects with children.

Introduces young learners to the hard "g" sound through a story about a visit to the garden.

Describes the East Bay French-American School gardening project, offers advice on how to set up and maintain a similar program in a home or school garden, features annotated listings of edible plants and herbs, and includes recipes.

Join host Amy Purcell as she provides children with information on creating their own window garden as well as several hydroponics activities.

Provides plans and instructions for growing twenty-six different gardens, with recipes for using what is grown. Gardens and recipes are divided by difficulty level, from easy to advanced.

Provides projects to get children involved in gardening, discussing what to plant, laying out the garden, preparing the soil, planting, caring for the plants, and harvesting.

Presents dozens of activities, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, designed to teach children how to be good gardeners, with projects demonstrating how to build a composter, attract butterflies, make a scarecrow, plan a garden, and grow different types of plants.