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

Design, plant, and grow a world of your very owninside a terrarium! Including 15 unique, imaginationinspiring project plans, each accompanied by adorable, fullcolor photographs, kids and their grownups 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 stepbystep project instructions found in A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, the results are beautiful, inspiring, and confidencebuilding. 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, its all about being active and building something cool! Plus, when the project is complete, theres 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 multicolored 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 plantfilled habitat for a praying mantis Grow a Japanese garden with living rocksWith 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 handson science. And you get to play in the dirt! What could be better than that?