Green Thumbs: A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening
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Tool Time You'll need some tools to work the soil of course You can save old forks spoons and kitchen scoops Use a turkey baster to water hanging plants or deli cate seedlings Scissors are useful when you are tak ing cuttings or clipping away seedlings to thin a row Look around and you may find lots of discarded items that can be useful in the garden There are many tools and pieces of gardening equipment that you can make for yourself too loves plant labels water dropper
trowel old forks and spoons SCISSOrs magnifying lens popsicle sticks tweezers
Tool Tote You'll need something to carry your garden tools out to your work area MATERIALS Plastic milk jug Scissors Markers decals stickers and other things to deco rate with Use scissors to cut away the top front section of a plastic milk jug Decorate it with permanent markers decals cut from adhesive backed paper like Contac or stickers Some useful things for outdoor gardeners are gloves a trowel old forks and spoons scissors plant labels and permanent markers to write on them with and a ball of string for tying up plants that need support Indoor gardeners need a tote to keep their special equipment in too Some things you will want to use for indoor plants are a water dropper tweez ers a magnifying lens popsicle sticks and old forks and spoons I n M OU
