In this colorful guide featuring 30 easy gardening projects, kids will learn to grow their own fruits and vegetables, attract wildlife such as butterflies and bees, and recycle household items into animal habitats and fun decorations. Whether they've got a big backyard or just a windowsill, kids can grow all sorts of plants with this beginner's gardening book. Packed with step-by-step activities, this book teaches children ages 5-8 how to grow garden staples like tomatoes, pumpkins, and zucchini with photographic examples. Each project includes a complete materials list, planting guide, and tips on harvesting your fruits and vegetables, providing plenty of support for kids from start to finish. The book also offers advice on creating creature-friendly spaces within your garden, such as a bee hotel, a ladybug sanctuary, and a home for frogs and toads. By caring for the wildlife around them, kids can grow to better understand the relationship between humans and nature, and how we can support local habitats wherever we happen to live. Beyond the gardening basics, Let's Get Gardening also helps kids learn about conservation, recycling, and sustainability through simple, hands-on projects. From making mini greenhouses out of leftover glass jars, to growing strawberries in an old pair of rain boots, to repurposing an empty milk carton as a hanging bird feeder, there are so many practical ways for kids to help cut waste and reduce pollution. So grab your potting soil and let's get gardening!

Let's Get Gardening is a wonderful start to building any child's green thumb and encouraging them to do their bit for the environment. This book includes three simple chapters - kitchen gardening, wildlife gardening and recycled gardening - each with easy sustainability projects to inspire everyone's inner eco-kid. Learn how to grow organic vegetables and herbs, how to attract awesome bees, butterflies and birds to your area, and how to make sustainable garden containers from household waste. This book helps children learn about conservation, recycling and sustainability in simple and practical ways, while getting them outdoors learning about plants and wildlife. They will learn to build a mini nature reserve, grow staple ingredients themselves, plant a bee-friendly garden, provide homes for native wildlife and much more. Whether you have a big garden or a small windowsill, you can do your bit to make the world a greener place.

Key Selling Points This book explores STEAM topics, and brings art and conservation science together through real-world examples. It discusses environmentalism, sustainability and activism, and asks kids to think about how art and conservation can be and are linked. Encourages young readers to look at art differently and think of it not just as something that hangs on a gallery wall. Includes examples of environmental art from around the world, including the Indigenous Art Park in Edmonton, Earthwork on the shores of Great Salt Lake in Utah, artificial coral reef installations in the Caribbean Sea, the Javits Center in New York City and a tree sculpture in Bristol, England, fitted with solar panels that can charge phones and computers. Encourages young readers to think about their own art as a tool for change. Their art matters and can have an impact beyond the simple enjoyment of making it.

Finally, a book that breaks down everything weve heard and gets straight to the fundamentals of what we eat and how we feel. This book will not only open your eyes to what we eat, how it is grown, manufactured, and packaged but also the impact it has on our health, and then goes one step further and actually tells us what we can do about it. Whether youre ready to take baby steps or make major changes, this book tells you how plain and simple. Lets Get Real about Eating keeps it simple, clear, and honest. Its not about being alternative or holistic or organic, its about being right and speaking the truth regarding our food. Randy Naidoo, M.D. Lauras extensive in depth knowledge for nutrition is remarkable! Lets Get Real About Eating could add years to your life. Melissa Irvin, mother of two Laura Kopec has expertly guided our family through practical steps to better health. Her wealth of education has helped us develop a healthy eating plan and get on the right track. Hillary Jarrard, mother of three This book is a must-have! Laura found a way to teach us in an easy, non-confrontational way of the dangers and concerns we should have regarding the foods we eat. Karimen Montero, mother of two Laura gave us freedom from being trapped in thesame cycle and taught us how to look outside the box. To open adults mindsand to instill this knowledge is a true God given talent and we are forever grateful! - Jennifer Goodman, mother

From the very simple (growing seeds on windowsills) to more involved (the care and feeding of a rose garden), the projects in this book will give children hours of fun while teaching important lessons about patience, responsibility, and the wonder of living things. Redbook Gardening Editor, Rapp appears on Regis and Kathie Lee. 35 line drawings.

DIVA Square Foot Garden is more than just a perfect place to grow vegetables—it is an ideal environment for sharing and learning with kids of all ages. This book teaches you how./divDIV /divDIVFor two generations, Mel Bartholomew’s top-selling Square Foot Gardening books have made his revolutionary system for growing vegetables available to millions of people. In Square Foot Gardening with Kids, Mel reveals all of the tips, tricks, and fun projects he has used over the decades in one of his most cherished pursuits: teaching youngsters to build and grow their own kid-sized SFGs. Because of its simple principles and fast payoff, Square Foot Gardening is perfect for children. The easy geometry of the gridded box breaks the complex world of gardening into digestible bites that are easy to approach and understand for enthusiastic young learners, and the sequence of tasks required to grow plants from seeds is repeatable and reassuring. Whether you’re a grandparent, parent, teacher, coach, or any kind of role model to young people, Square Foot Gardening with Kids offers you the proven methods Mel has developed himself to entertain and amaze the kid in all of us. And, in the process, many valuable life lessons can be learned—such as the importance of following instructions and doing your chores, basic skills like counting and water conservation, and learning to appreciate the nature of food and why it is important to respect it. But more than anything, this clever, colorful new book captures the essence of growing edibles for anyone, regardless of age: it is fun and rewarding./div