This easy DIY terrarium is the perfect activity for kids. With the help of our friends at Crown Flora Studio, we’ve got the how-to here.
Photo: Tony Lanz
In honour of Earth Day, our friends at Crown Flora Studio in Toronto showed us this simple-to-make, easy-to-maintain DIY terrarium. Here’s the kid-friendly how-to.
Photo: Tony Lanz
Materials:
- glass container (with air hole)
- preserved reindeer moss
- coloured gravel
- Tillandsia air plant
- pebbles, twigs, acorns, small toy figures
- spray bottle
Directions:
1. Pour about an inch of gravel into your glass container.
Photo: Tony Lanz
2. Position your air plant in the gravel.
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3. Place moss, pebbles, acorns, twigs and other extras around the base of the plant.
Photo: Tony Lanz
4. To care for your plant: Mist the plant twice every three days and keep it in indirect sunlight.
Photo: Tony Lanz
A version of this article appeared in the April 2014 issue with the headline “Plant world,” p. 22.
