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

By Laurie Winn Carlson

Book Overview

Budding gardeners will learn what it takes to make things grow with fun activities that require only readily available materials.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155652238X
• ISBN13: 9781556522383
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Book

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.

101 Ways to Use a Milk Jug

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...

Informative and full of great ideas!

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...