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

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

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

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press; 1st edition (March 1, 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 155652238X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556522383
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Laurie Carlson
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Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening (A Kid's Guide series) [Paperback]

 

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

 

Customer Reviews


We just received this book, and I am excited to try out a few of the ideas with my young children. However, I am a little surprised and disappointed by some of the experiments. The author goes into great detail discussing how to grow a "Mold Plant" from a slice of bread, and how to grow a "Yeast Plant" from baker's yeast. Mold and Yeast are from the Kingdom Fungi, not the Plant Kingdom. Also, it states that Algae is a plant. That is sometimes true, but not always. Some are grouped into the Kingdom Protista instead of the Plant Kingdom (bc they are not multicellular, yet they are still photosynthetic). If you are teaching your child about different kingdoms and scientific classifications this could be very confusing (and misleading)...especially since recent research has actually determined that Fungi are closer genetically to animals than to plants....but I digress.
I believe that many parents purchased this book in hopes of using it as an educational resource. It is even listed in "The Well Trained Mind" as recommended reading for science education. More fact checking needs to go into the next edition!

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.

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