From the makers of Look What I Made (reviewed in our September 1990 issue), comes this winning guide to home growing projects which teaches simple hydroponics, soil preparation, and plant propagation concepts along the way. Elementary teacher Amy Purcell demonstrates each of the projects herself and offers a little scientific commentary, and then the steps are shown again being carried out by kids. Projects include growing sweet potatoes and avocados (using hydroponics), making sprouts from cress seeds, following the nourishing path of water in celery using food coloring, making apple finger puppets and seed pack people, using the tops of carrots and pineapples to start new plants, building a terrarium, watching seeds grow through a homemade "seed viewer," and keeping a Gardening Journal. The second entry in the "On My Own" series, Look What I Grew offers an array of fun projects, a sound introduction to basic gardening concepts, and Purcell's encouraging and confidence building instruction to help youngsters develop green thumbs (a new use for what are essentially Nintendo thumbs). Highly recommended. Editor's Choice. (Available from most distributors.)
Look What 1 Grew: Windowsill Gardens
(1992) 45 min. $14.95. Pacific Arts Video. Public performance rights included. Color cover. Vol. 7, Issue 10
Look What 1 Grew: Windowsill Gardens
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