This is a great book! We wanted to find a way to really get our daughter introduced into growing things and learning about how to keep plants alive, as well as responsibility. It is a brilliant book, with lots of great ideas. We loved it!

Though this book is geared toward kids, it's written in a way that doesn't talk down to the reader, and offers enough information to make it a good choice for adults too. Everything is explained clearly and thoroughly, and the reader will learn a lot of nature science along the way. At this time of home schooling and online classes, this would also make for a good learning experience, teaching not only science and nature, but organization, planning, and responsibility as well. Bonus- you end up with something beautiful! The beginning chapters explain the steps of setting up a terrarium, such as types of containers, types of soil, and recommended plants, and the rest of the content has 15 different projects, giving a wide range of ideas for terrarium set-ups. A list of resources is included at the back to help find any materials not available locally. I want to try a mini moss landscape first, I think! A very well-rounded book that is both fun and educational!

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A family guide to Terrariums for kids is a beautiful and informative book of projects, ideas and information for parents and children to enable successful Terrarium projects.

The book is divided into two parts - part one is information on the types of containers and soils, materials to use etc and the second part is the actual projects you can try to make.
I especially loved the decorative aspects that children could use for their Terrariums depending on their tastes and interests such as dinosaurs or a christmas scene.

This book has a wealth of information to get you started and make your projects successful. This book would make a fantastic book to use during lockdown.

Terrariums are a lot of fun and they don't have to be expensive or difficult to start with, but once one is hooked there is no end of possibilities to create very detailed gardens in a bottle.
This book is a very simple to follow guide to starting of with simple creations and progressing to orchids and bonsai under glass. Kid will love adding their special t0uch of animals, fairies and other toy to creative their special gardens. adults will love it to create glamorous indoor/ garden accessories.
Just the thing for these school holidays.

This was a fantastic guide for you and your family members! Great easy tips. We are going to do a family one at Christmas and give as gifts! Highly recommended this book! Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids by Patricia Buzo was a fascinating and informative book. While it says “For Kids” in the title, this is perfect for any age. I wanted to give it a try because my husband has been wanting to build one, but we don’t know where to start.

The book was extremely informative and explained how to start building from the ground up. Buzo listed some of her favourite plants as well. Then the second half of the book was all crafts. I have to say the crafts were quite impressive. There was a huge variety of styles and ecosystems to choose from. I greatly appreciated the care instructions for each type as well. Now our big problem is figuring out which one we want to start with.

This book is perfect for all ages. Buzo’s passion shows throughout with all the detail and thought she put into this book. I highly recommend to anyone who would love to give terrariums a try.

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Fun and Sometimes Beautiful Range of Terrariums

What a fun book of terrarium projects, perfect for homeschooling during a current global crisis as well as for family projects any time! Full of informative and inspiring photographs, the book is divided into two sections: (1) general information about containers to choose, growing mediums, and plants to consider and (2) actual terrarium projects. Some of the finished terrariums are surprisingly beautiful (like the one with geodes, the orchidarium, or the ones with interesting-looking containers) while others are certainly whimsical ones that will interest children, like a dinosaur diorama including toy dinosaurs. There's even a praying mantis vivarium, which is a type of terrarium that not only has plants but also insects. Some could even easily springboard into a discussion about ecology, like the closed jungle ecosystem with tropical plants. The projects in these books are clearly meant to be done by the entire family. This book is not written for kids; it is written for the adults who should direct the projects. If you have any interest in making terrariums with your kids (or heck, even by yourself if you don’t have at-home children), this book will certainly inspire you to either create your own or do one of the step-by-step projects included in this book. Highly recommended.

Great book for learning all about terrariums for the young and the young at heart. I have plants all around my home but have never delved into the world of terrariums. For the most part, the materials seem pretty easy to gather. Also with many children being homeschooled, this book would be ideal as a long-term science experiment. As with living plants there are successes and failures, which help kids to understand that failure is just a part of life. Understanding this and learning from it is vital for a healthy attitude. Overall this book is a must have in homes and libraries alike.
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I randomly decided that making a terrarium would be a fun project for the upcoming cool seasons. Okay, now to learn anything at all about a terrarium... Fortunately, this book covers everything you need to know (and, spoiler alert, there is way more to it than I thought!). From what kinds of plants to chose (so...many...options...) to containers options and how often to water, this book is a great go-to guide for the beginner. The creative set-up ideas feel like a bonus! I'm more excited than ever to start our terrarium project, but my first step will be to get this book in hardcopy!
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A fun book on terrariums, whether or not you have kids. I'm a novice, with no kids, but have always wanted to learn and have my own. This book is a great teaching tool, with such good detail on how to start and what to do. Offers many ideas, with information on the plants and ecosystems necessary. Detailed information on the plants, designs, the containers, caring for the plants, and anything else necessary to successfully build and care for a terrarium. Beautiful and inspiring photos, with themed projects including a Winter Scene Terrarium or Hanging Globe with Succulent. I highly recommend this guide to anyone who wants to learn all about terrariums, or increase their knowledge of what they might already know about them.

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What a fabulous book for the whole family, from the containers to use, to the kind of plants and planting bases; it is all there. My only quibble would be that this seemed to me like an all rounder for terrarium planting for the whole family. The photos were great and the recommendations seemed sensible, for example, using jars you have around the house for your planting. In all, a really nice book, even if all you are going to do is look at the pictures!


Really interesting craft o try at home with your kids or if you're a teacher like myself, to try in the classroom! Honestly, this would be a fun activity to try on your own or with friends as well! Terrariums have recently been growing in popularity, and it's really interesting to learn how they're made. It feels really special to have something homemade rather than purchasing it at the store. The book was concisely written with immaculate instructions, and the photos helped illustrate each point. I really enjoyed myself!

This book was great. My son really enjoyed it and is keen to pick something out of here and start. Thanks for the creativity

Patricia Buzo has created such a fun and beautiful book in the form of "A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids." Terrariums have been all the rage recently, and the author provides a simple way to create some at home by providing straightforward instructions with wonderful pictures to illustrate the steps.

This book covers some gorgeous ideas and features a range of plants, materials and containers. Some of our favorite containers were the geometric ones. The kids really loved the sections that featured small toys or figurines in the terrariums. However, this book is definitely something that would better suit a family that has slightly older kids or young ones that are able to be calm and follow directions extremely well. Set up and maintenance includes using water, soil and other materials that can be messy in addition to using instruments that require good fine motor skills. With that being said, we loved the images in this book and can't wait to try our hand at recreating the Bonsai tree terrarium!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great book on the basics of terrarium making. It also includes several projects with easy to follow photos and instructions. Terrariums would be a great family or classroom project.

This is a colorful, informative, complete guide to terrariums. It has very thorough information on plants, containers, soil, watering, etc. and features 15 projects.

I would probably rate it 4 stars if it were just a terrarium book, as it is such a complete one. I'm not sure it's the best terrarium guide for kids, though, since it calls for very specific plants and materials and really seems like the sort of sophisticated projects where mom does all the work and the kid looks at it. There are lots of photos of smiling kids misting a jar full of plants, but I just didn't get that "Look what I did all by myself!" vibe that would make it a really successful children's activity book. These are all gorgeous terrariums but I'm kind of wondering how thrilled an ordinary child is going to be by having a jar with some plants in it. A few have kid touches like a little dino figurine in it, but mostly they're just fancy terrariums.

I put out a free nature magazine for kids and their grown ups, and last year I featured an easy little terrarium project for kids in that. My daughter Fiona (7 at the time) went in the shady part of the back yard and gathered up a bit of moss and put it on the inside of a cleaned out salsa lid and screwed the jar over the top of it. It made a darling little ecosystem that she kept on the piano for nearly a year before we forgot to mist it and consigned it to the compost and recycling bin. She was able to do it all herself and it cost nothing.

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I would have appreciated even one project that was that level of simple, inexpensive and child-led in this book, and then perhaps kids could advance on to the more sophisticated projects.

That said, this is an extremely helpful book for setting up terrariums for anyone in the family, especially if you want fancier ones. It features all kinds of plants that are well suited, great containers, and lots of information. Colorful photos are used throughout.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

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Great book! Well laid out with so much info and tons of pictures. 15 projects are covered with step by step instructions on how to set up. Lots of info on containers, soil, plants, mosses, watering and cute ways to decorate. I can’t wait to create some terrariums.

I really liked how informative this book is. I love all the detailed information about how to make different terrariums. I think this is a must buy book for anyone who loves plants. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review this book.

It’s so wonderfully bizarre when a book release reads your mind. I’ve been working in terrariums for years and restarted recently in teaching my mom, 8-year old niece, and sister the basics of terrariums. I thought it was a great outdoor, socially distant activity and my niece and sister loved it (mom not a fan of the mouthful of dirt she ended up having). It’s gotten to an almost obsession on their end, but I prefer keeping it simple to not overwhelm myself and what more perfect way to keep it simple than this book? I was so excited to see the authors basic recommendations and perfect amount of information to keep the joy in this project. I did learn quite a bit between the best plants for the best containers, and am planning to make more based on the authors recommendations. I’m really excited to try different techniques and use this book as a resource. #AFamilyGuidetoTerrariumsforKids #NetGalley

What a great book to have for those wanting to create their own terrarium. It has several types you can make on your own. It has detailed options for your choosing of resources. It is full of colorful photographs.