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excellent resource Feb 28, 2010
By Carol M. Ware
This book is an excellent resource for all therapists! It's filled with projects and ideas to stimulate the senses and uplift spirits that I find essential in treating patients in physical therapy. The activities are easy to follow with an abundance of information that use sensory compensation techniques, fine motor skills along with some mobility activities involved in the set up and the clean up. I intend to use many of the projects in my overall treatments and recommend this book as an excellent resource. C. Ware
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Most informative and enjoyable! Feb 15, 2010
By J. Bruce
A Calendar Year of Horticultural Therapy is a fun, informative and enjoyable book.
The directions for projects are complete and eary to follow. Jan has included wonderful recipes to delight the tongue and senses --as well as the soul. It is fun to discover information about various plants and the insects they play host to as well as how to use the plants in a variety of ways.
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A Calendar Year of Horticultural Therapy Feb 08, 2010
By Caroline M. Flower
This book is packed full of wonderful ideas and projects for bringing the world of beauty and nature indoors season by season. It is well organized, easy to follow, and tells you everything you need to know to successfully implement each project.
Anyone who reads this book, uses it as a resource, or takes these ideas and shares them with others will be touched by the passion, excitement and love for nature that the author has so well portrayed.
If you love nature and gardening, work with children or adults of all ages, or just want to "tend to your soul," this book is a must have for your library.
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Great Book Feb 05, 2010
By Melissa A. Schmitt
This is a great book. It gives you many ideas to use with things from your garden. I believe the author used the ideas for her patients in nursing homes but they can be used by everyone. I cannot wait until next growing season so I can explore her ideas.
Lesson Plans from the Garden May 02, 2011
By Story Circle Book Reviews
This is not a book to read, it's a book to do. The author combines her two passions, gardening and working in health care, to create a set of wonderful step-by-step lesson plans to use with older people, particularly those in communal living settings. For example, in the spring you might want to create a fairy garden or make pressed flower bookmarks in November, so they can be given as Christmas presents.
I've rarely seen a more complete or helpful book of lesson plans. Everything is there: what benefit the project offers, materials required, hands-on instructions, special notes for participants with limitations, and for some projects, how to follow up in the weeks after doing the project. I especially loved her comment about how growing bulbs in January turned into a competition for weeks afterward as residents vied to keep their bulb blooming the longest, have the biggest flower, etc.
You need absolutely no gardening knowledge to use this book. If you can't tell a peony from a petunia, you can take this book to your local gardening and/or art store, show one of the staff the list of needed materials and you're on you're way. While the author focuses on using these projects with older people, they could be used just as well with Girl Scouts, Sunday school groups, day camps, or after-school care.
by Sharon Wildwind
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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