Easter Basket full of Craft Books Giveaway and how to make a Grassy Garden Gnomes

Because that's what a craft Easter Bunny brings to crafters! This Easter basket of books includes the new book:

Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden

Along with...

-Once Upon a Quilt: A Scrapbook of Quilting Past and Present 

-One-of-a-Kind Wedding: Faux Florals and Candles

-Bead Quilled Jewelry: New Beadwork Designs with Square Stitch

-Designer Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration: Creating Accessories for Your Body and Sole

-A Priceless Wedding: Crafting a Meaningful, Memorable, and Affordable Celebration

-Realistic Painting Workshop: Creative Methods for Painting from Life

(Note: Easter basket not included, just to make a fun photo! With these 7 books on gardening, painting, quilting, stitching, decorating, beading and wedding planning, you will surely be inspired to make all sorts of fabulous stuff!)

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Now, I want to share with you a fun project from the brand new book Gardening Lab for Kids.

Click on these pages from Gardening Lab for Kids to enlarge and read how to make grassy garden gnomes out of recycled nylons and a few simple craft supplies.

 

More about the new kids gardening book from Quarry:

Gardening Lab for Kids: 52 Fun Experiments to Learn, Grow, Harvest, Make, Play, and Enjoy Your Garden

by Renata Fossen Brown

A refreshing source of ideas to help your children learn to grow their own patch of earth, Gardening Lab for Kids encourages children to get outside and enjoy nature. This fun and creative book features 52 plant-related activities set into weekly lessons, beginning with learning to read maps to find your heat zone, moving through seeds, soil, composting, and then creating garden art and appreciating your natural surroundings.

Renata Fossen Brown guides your family through fun opportunities learning about botany, ecology, the seasons, food, patience, insects, eating, and cooking. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on outdoor experiences. The lessons in this book are open-ended to be explored over and over–with different results each time! Garden Lab for Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups and works as lesson plans for both experienced and new gardeners. Children of all ages and experience levels can be guided by adults and will enjoy these engaging exercises.

So, slip on your muddy clothes, and get out and grow!

As Associate Director of Education, Renata Fossen Brown (Cleveland, OH) oversees the thousands of school children visiting Cleveland Botanical Garden yearly, as well as the development and implementation of teacher professional development workshops. She assisted in the planning and facilitating of a 10-day teacher workshop that traveled to Costa Rica to study biodiversity. Brown is involved in the writing of interpretation and exhibit graphics at the Garden and served as president of the Cleveland Regional Council of Science Teachers.

Comments

[Bonney]

I'm going to say the best place to hide an egg is in a tree trunk. What a great selection of books!

[Skyann S]

On top of our apartment cabinets :) Those can be the adult Easter eggs ;)

[Shelley S.]

Lovely giveaway!! Best spot for hiding an Easter egg? Base of a tree outdoors, inside a house plant container indoors.

[Mary Helene]

We hide Easter eggs along the fence post around the yard for the grand kids.

[Donna Pheneger]

The best place to hide an egg? In the basket mom always had on display - we usually overlooked that. :-)

[Jaan L]

We all have cats, so one of the best places is around the kitty bed. Hey, several time the mama kitty thought it was her baby and snuggled up with it.

[Eileen Higgins]

Very lovely books. Could keep grandchildren busy learning for a long time.

[Sue Schuster]

In the flower pots and in the garden.