The Garden Classroom: 52 kids gardening activities ebook is now published and available for you to buy.
The Garden Classroom brings you fifty-two creative and playful activities, giving you a whole year’s worth of garden-based projects to enjoy with your children. Come rain or shine, and whatever the season, there are ideas you can use to give your children a connection to nature all year round.
With ideas for bringing art, craft, science, math, literacy and play to your outdoor space I think you will love The Garden Classroom. Take a look at this video and I’ll show you some of the ideas from the book.
Why you’ll love The Garden Classroom
:: The Garden Classroom gives you a year’s worth of resources you can use to give your children a connection with nature. You will have activities to teach science, math, and literacy using the outdoors as your classroom. You will also have clever and creative ideas to enjoy arts, crafts and play with your children.
:: It’s filled with beautiful, full-color photographs bringing each activity to life and clearly showing you each project. It’s a pleasure to read and practical: let your children browse through the pages and pick their favorite project, then print off the individual pages and you’re ready to start.
:: Suitable for children aged from two through to ten, every activity in the book has been tried, tested and approved by children – my own daughters, the children I have worked with in my home day-care setting, and those in the school gardening project that I run.
:: Covering all seasons, and all weathers, there’s a project you could try today, and enough ideas to last you all year long. You can decide to do an activity each week, or group them together as a block of learning.
:: No gardening expertise is required! The book gives you lots of tips to grow flowers, fruit and vegetables with your children. Many of the activities are centred on enjoying the outdoors and using whatever outdoor space you have – whether that’s a large garden, a tiny plot like my own, a school garden area, a window box or even your local park or woodland. The projects don’t have to all be done outside either – most of them will work just as well within a classroom setting.
:: Every activity is clearly laid out with beautiful photographs and step-by-step instructions. It includes many ideas to vary the projects and extend them to suit your own children’s ages, stages and interests.
:: The ebook will be delivered as soon as you place your order, via e-mail as a downloadable pdf document. This allows you to browse the book on your computer and select the activities you want to try first. You can choose to print the whole book, for reference or to add in to your planning files. You can also print individual projects, so you have the step-by-step guides for each activity to take with you into the garden or classroom.
:: Read what others are saying about The Garden Classroom.
Get your copy of the Garden Classroom
Just $9.99 for 52 fun, creative and educational activities. That’s around £5.60 for UK readers and as the book is bought via paypal you can buy a copy wherever you are in the world. Click the button below to get your copy of The Garden Classroom e-book right now as an instant download which you can begin to use straight away.
The book will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your paypal account. The delivery system gives you 5 attempts at download within 120 hours, so you can buy now and do the download a little later if you prefer.
Once you’ve got your copy, head over to my facebook page and let me know which activity you pick to try first!
Music Credit: JENNY’S THEME (Jason Shaw) / CC BY 3.0
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This is such a lovely ebook! I love all of the activities you have put together for it!!!
Thanks maryanne!
I cannot wait to buy the book! Your photos are lovely and I’m sure the activity inspiration is, too! Congrats, Cathy
Thanks Chrissy!
Oh, my gosh, this looks great! Going through the video you embedded, it seems like the photos are pretty amazing, as well. I’ll have to put this on my list of books-to-buy. My daughter would love these activities!!!
Thanks Rebecca. The book is full of these kind of photos – showing each project. Hope you like it!
This really looks wonderful! You did an awesome job putting this together.
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Hi,
Would like to get the e book for my two kids but we live in the Bahamas. So I was wondering if the gardening part, will work for our climet. Thanks
Hi Mishka, I think pretty much every project will work for you, because they are adaptable to suit your location, season and climate. The gardening ideas and science experiments can be done using the plants that grow well where you are.
Fantastic, will get it over the weekend. Did have one more question for ya. I am not up todate with computers, so sorry if this is a silly question. Is their anyway I can have this on my desk computer (so I can print) and my iPad so that I can move around with the info so that I do not have to print everything? Really hope this is not a tottally silly question. Thanks so much looking forward to it take care
Hi Mishka, I always say there are no such thing as silly questions! Yes, the book will arrive as a pdf that you can download and save to one of your personal folders on your computer. I’m guessing you have other files saved in a folder somewhere that you can access from your desk computer and your iPad? The book can be the same. You can also print all of it, or just particular pages, in colour or black and white, to suit you.
Hi Ya Cathy
The ebook is just FANTASTIC, perfect timing as the Summer Hols will be starting tomorrow for the children. Im really looking forward to do some messy play with the boys!!
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Thanks for all the help, going to buy it know
Really looking forward Take care
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Thank you so much for your comment Carolyn. I’m really pleased you enjoyed the book.
I’m off to buy one now!
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I have just ordered my copy of your book, I was wondering how long the time period is between purchasing and receiving the email with the download link, I haven’t received it as yet.
Hi Alison, the e-mail should come straight through and will be sent to the e-mail address associated with the PayPal account you used to make the purchase. It’s possible it may end up in your e-mail spam folder. If you haven’t got it yet please drop me an e-mail (Cathy @ nurturestore.co.uk) with details of your Paypal e-mail address and I’ll get another link out to you straight away. Thanks for your interest in the book. Cathy
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Hi Cathy,
I purchased the 52 Garden ideas from you, however my printer decided to die on me half way through printing and I only managed to print pages 59-112.
I have tried to download and re-print the missing pages, but I find that I am trying to be charged the full price again to do so.
I would be really grateful if you could allow me to have access to this again so that I can complete my book for the children.
The weather is just starting to warm up here and we are all raring to go!
Kind regards
Ann
Hi Ann. I’ve just sent you an e-mail with a new link so you can get all the pages you need.
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Hi! I ordered this ebook through paypal on April 21st, 2013 and according to my paypal account my transaction was completed. I tried to email.you, but for some reason my email isn’t coming through to your email address! I was hoping to make the peg butterflies with my son for his grandmothers for Mother’s Day. If you could look into what has happened with my order it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Hi Tori, Sorry to hear you’ve had problems. I’ve just sent you a new link so you can download the book. If you have any further problems, please let me know. Hope you enjoy making the butterflies! Cathy
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