A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids: Imagination-inspiring Projects to Grow a World in Glass - Build a mini ecosystem!

by Patricia Buzo

Overview

Design, plant, and grow a world of your very own—inside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imagination-inspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, full-color photographs, kids and their grown-ups will discover how easy terrariums are to plant and grow. 

*As featured in The New York Times*

Kids love to create, imagine, and have fun. Nothing fulfills all three of those desires quite like designing and planting a terrarium. With the step-by-step project instructions found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidence-building. Making these little landscapes develops motor skills, spacial awareness, and provides a wealth of sensory input. The science behind the art is included with quick and simple lessons on ecosystem functions, the water cycle, and plant nutrition. But for kids, it's all about being active and building something cool! Plus, when the project is complete, there's a piece of living art to share with family and friends or display on a bedroom shelf.

With the terrarium plans found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, everyone in the family can tap their inner “science geek” to:

• Use multi-colored sand and succulents to craft a desert terrarium
• Plant, trim, and tend a terrarium bonsai tree
• Build a peat bog filled with carnivorous plants
• Make an aquatic terrarium, complete with a marimo moss ball “pet”
• Design a prehistoric garden of air plants
• Create a plant-filled habitat for a praying mantis
• Grow a Japanese garden with living rocks

With information on selecting the best terrarium container, growing materials, decorative elements, tools, and plants, readers are primed for success that lasts long after the terrarium has been built. Terrariums combine imagination and creativity with a dash of hands-on science. And you get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760367346
Publisher:	Cool Springs Press
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	266,123
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.65(d)
Age Range:	4 - 12 Years

About the Author

Patricia Buzo is the owner and artist behind Doodle Bird Terrariums. From the age of 15, she had a successful career in fine art and mural painting, often choosing plants and nature as her preferred subject matter. Looking for a chance to work more closely with nature, Patricia founded her terrarium-making business in 2008, and through trial and error has become an expert in her craft. Both by experimentation and research, she perfected how to best create and care for planted terrariums, while at the same time using her artist background to create realistic miniature landscapes using live mosses and other tiny plant life. 

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Section 1 Parts of a Terrarium 8

Chapter 1 Picking the right container 8

Chapter 2 Preparing your container for planting 14

Chapter 3 The best plants for terrariums 20

Chapter 4 How to take care of your terrarium 42

Section 2 Terrarium Projects for Kids 52

1 Winter Scene Terrarium 52

2 Hanging Glass Globe with Succulents 55

3 Bonsai Terrarium 58

4 Pet Marimo Moss Ball Aquarium 62

5 Geometric Terrarium with Succulents, Crystals, and Geodes 66

6 Bromeliad Terrarium with Layered Sand 69

7 Japanese Garden with Living Rocks 72

8 Geometric Terrarium with Air Plants 76

9 Dinosaur Bones Diorama Terrarium 80

10 Carnivorous Plant Terrarium 84

11 Vivarium for a Praying Mantis 88

12 Closed Jungle Ecosystem with Tropical Plants 92

13 Orchidarium 96

14 Aquatic Plant Paludarium 100

15 Mini Moss Landscape 104

Resources 108

About the Author 109

Acknowledgements 109

Index 110

Editorial Reviews

"I was BLOWN away by not only how FUN the ideas are, but how science based and educational it is!"—Bloom and Grow Radio

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