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Plant Activities, Games, Kits, Books and DVDs
This section includes activity books, games, kits, and DVD's on medicinal plants, cross-cultural uses of plants, ethnobotany, seed dispersal, spring and fall leaf changes, science fair projects in botany, plant growing kits, leaf replicas, books on collecting and preserving plants, flower magnets.
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Tree Ring Kits and Tree Cross-Sections
Acorn Naturalists now offers a wide selection of tree limb cross sections. These quality rounds range in size from 2" to 5" across by 1/4"-1/2" thick and allow for clear reading of growth rings. Tree rings vary in size and appearance depending on growing conditions and species variations. Willow, ash, cottonwood are riparian species, tamarisk is an invasive species, oaks can be identified by their characteristic radial rays, pine and walnut and oak show classic seasonal dry/wet ring patterns. Tree rounds provide an ideal hands-on resource for introducing students to botany, forestry, dendrology and methods scientists use to determine past climatic conditions. Acorn Naturalists offers a varied selection of fourteen different tree rounds: six eastern/midwestern species are offered along with eight western species. Also available is a bark beetle life cycle demonstration kit and two tree round discovery kits (eastern and western).
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Botany Field Equipment - Plant Presses & Supplies
This section includes how-to guides on collecting and preserving plants, student and professional plant presses, plant press driers, and ventilators. Also in this section are smaller plant presses, including the gardener's (flower) press, and a lightweight pocket size field plant press. For more information on the use of plant presses, simply click here.
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Plant References, Supplies and Field Guides
This section includes plant identification cards, sort key guide to trees, references on grasses, wildflowers, Fandex guides, oak woodland and chaparral science activity kits, books on poison ivy and lichens along with a complete selection of folding pocket magnifiers, stereo microscopes and magnifiers for looking closely at leaf and flower structure.
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Leaf, Stem, Seed and Crop Identification Kits
This section includes creative leaf and stem identification games, leaf collections, twig, tree and leaf identification kits, How a Tree Grows kit and the Seed Identification Kit.
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Botanical Displays
In this section you will find a wide variety of botanical displays to help students learn about plant adaptations and identification. Included are displays of leaf shapes and arrangements, stem adaptations, leaf venation, lichen forms, monocot and dicot characteristics, fern life cycles, poison ivy identification, comparisons of hardwoods and softwoods, fruit types, commercial grains and oak leaves and acorns. All botanical displays are mounted in glass-topped display cases.
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Glass-topped Riker Mount Display Cases
These durable glass-topped display cases offer protection for dried specimens, pressed flowers, seeds, bones from owl pellets, gemstones, fossils or feathers. Acorn Naturalists offers three styles of displays: standard 3/4" thick displays in four sizes, extra-depth 2" thick displays in three sizes, and sectional displays with two different trays.
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Paper Making Kits, Activities and Supplies
Recycled paper and other fiberous materials can be made into beautiful, creative papers. Contained in this section are paper making kits, supplies and activity guides.
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Paper Casting Kits, Books and Supplies
Paper casting is similar to paper making but in the case of casting, liquified papers are pressed into molds to produce beautiful raised patterns and designs that can be used in artwork, cards, or displays.
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Leaf Replicas for Leafprint Art
Actual imprints of leaves that have been cast in flexible vinyl for use in creative art projects or as an aid in plant identification. Press with different colors of stamp pads or roll on different colors of block inks to make leaf prints using a brayer. These leaf replicas range from 5" - 9” in length.
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Block Inks for Leaf Replicas
These specialty inks are ideal for making perfect leaf prints on any kind of paper. Unlike many other printing inks or paints, these wash off easily with soap and water. Now available in a rainbow of colors. Mix colors to make your own shades! Each 37 cc tube will ink about 40-60 leaves. To expand design options, we also carry ink extender (increases transparency) and ink retarder (slows drying time).
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