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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Terrarium Crafts Arts and Crafts Projects Ideas for your Kids
A terrarium is a container in which you hold a plants and animals in so that you can try to keep a good ecosystem going on in there. In this way, you can create an environment in which you can control...so it is like creating a miniature earth inside a container. The following crafts are all terrarium crafts ...I hope you enjoy all of the ideas.
To make this bible story terrarium, you will need a large glass bowl or jar; piece of smooth-edged glass or plastic to cover jar or bowl; enough charcoal pieces to cover bottom of container; enough pebbles to cover charcoal; enough sandy soil to make about 1" covering over pebbles; small plants such as bird's-foot violet, fern, hepatica, lichen, moss, partridgeberry, seedling evergreen, and twinberr. Cover bottom of container with charcoal pieces. Put in a layer of pebbles and then add soil. Dampen soil slightly, then put plants firmly in the soil. Water gently until soil is moist. Cover container with plastic or glass. Water will evaporate and form droplets on glass or plastic. If too much moisture collects on glass, remove top until excess evaporates. No moisture on underside of glass top indicates water is needed. These terrariums make excellent gifts and are useful teaching aids in the various Sunday school departments. If you do not have the plants listed above, use small cacti, succulents, etc. Also, you can add miniature plastic objects for teaching value, such as small boxes for Palestinian houses, animals, etc.
Build
a Terrariums - My indoor cats like to devour
anything plant or flower related. They will even go so far as rip
into a bag of potting soil if I allow it within their reach. So, this
was the perfect project to bring a little of the outdoors inside!
Dinosaur
Terrarium Crafts - Bring a bit of the outdoors indoors with a dinosaur terrarium craft
project. Add some plants and plastic dinosaurs or other animals to
make a prehistoric forest in your room.
Easy
Terrariums - Looking
for a perfect way to plant a love of nature in your child? Start
digging and create this easy terrarium together.
How
to Make Terrariums - They
are really quite simple to make and lovely to look at. I especially
like seeing the layers in the glass jar; they remind me of those
colored sand art projects from preschool days.
Made
it Myself - Your milk bottle terrarium can serve
as a creative table centerpiece, as well as a stimulating science
project for kids.
Make
a Terrarium by Amy the interns - This is a project that is a low time
and money commitment, but adds a little bit of the outdoors to any
home.
Moss-age
in a bottles - It’s been a long, cold 2009
here in the northeast. All the more reason to have a little winter
garden. In a wine bottle.
Plant
Activities for Kids - You
can make a bottle terrarium -- a habitat for houseplants -- out of
old, recycled pop bottles. If you collect wild plants or seeds for
your terrarium, be sure to collect on private property with
permission only. Never collect plants from parks, state lands, or
federal property.
Shoebox
Terrariums - This
is a fun project and, like so many of my favorite projects, can be
made with household items and minimal craft supplies.
Spooky
Halloween Terrariums - Bring
empty pickle, jelly, and other glass jars back from the dead by
turning them into haunting terrariums.
Steampunk
Terrariums - This
is just a quick dirty and fast tutorial on building a prop for the
Steampunk Household.
Terrarium
Provides Simple Pleasure in Back-to-Basics Lifestyle - The
beauty of terrariums is they thrive on neglect, making them the
perfect planting situation for those who habitually forget to water.
The
New Terrarium - If
the word "terrarium" conjures up images of the defunct
aquarium turned musty terrarium of the '70s, take a gander at the
beautifully encapsulated gardens created by Debbie Knitz, artist and
owner of BlingKing Lizard Design in Portland.
Your
Own Little World: Create a Terrarium - Whether
it's filled with mossy rocks and ferns or sands and cactus, a
terrarium is an amazingly fun way to learn more about nature. With a
terrarium in your room, something of the outdoors can always be
inside.