How to Start Your Own Herbarium
This school site features details for teachers and students on collecting, pressing, and identifying local plants, and creating herbaria. Dig around their site and you'll find even more gardening, botany, and habitat gems!

Dried Flowers Galore
Features instructive articles, an illustrated list of dried plants, a seed source listing, and a forum for exchanging ideas and asking questions.

Just for Kids: Drying Flowers
Step-by-step instructions for air-drying, as well as using inexpensive pantry items to dry more delicate blooms.

An Aromatic Herbal Curriculum
A multisensory project finds special needs students in grades 5 and 6 growing herbs in the classroom and making potpourri and sachets for sale. Read their story.

The Language of Flowers
The historical meanings of herbs and flowers, from apple blossom to zinnia.

Flower Items from the Gardening with Kids Store
(Members get 10% off all store products.)

Botanical Field Press
Kids can take this durable plant press with them on their collecting expeditions. Carrying handles are built into the straps. Buckles are easy to cinch for proper clamping pressure. Measures 10" x 12".



National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Wildflowers
by Susan Hood
Designed for ages 9 to 12, this field guide includes stunning photos, descriptions of common wildflowers, and current information on endangered species. (Link is to Amazon.com.)




Wildflower Identifier
This colorful field tool from the Gardening with Kids store makes it easy for budding growers to identify 33 native wildflowers. One side provides a picture to match with real flowers, and the reverse side features information on each flower, such as common and botanical name, life cycle, and historic significance.

Flower Flags
Made from batiked rayon, these high-quality, hand-painted flags are intended for outside use in the tradition of Tibetan prayer flags. Includes a set of 8 flags representing 8 separate flowers (only 4 shown here), each 14"x16"; 120" total length.