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Plant Activities, Games, Kits, Books and DVDs
This section includes activity guides, creative games, kits, and DVD's, 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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Botanical Displays
In this section you will find a wide variety of botanical displays to help students learn about plant diversity, adaptations and identification. Included are displays of leaf shapes and arrangements, stem adaptations, leaf venation, lichen forms, monocot and dicot characteristics, fern life cycles, conifer life cycles, algae types, wildflowers, fungi, poison ivy identification, comparisons of hardwoods and softwoods, fruit types, commercial grains and oak leaves and acorns. All botanical displays are museum-quality and are mounted in glass-topped display cases.
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Tree Ring Study Kits and Tree Cross-Sections
Acorn Naturalists now offers a wide selection of tree limb cross sections. These quality rounds range in size from 2-1/2" to 5" across by 1/4"-1/2" thick and allow for easy reading of growth rings. Tree rings vary in size and appearance depending on climatic conditions and species variations. Oak species can be easily identified by their characteristic radial rays; all rounds 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 different tree rounds of both eastern/midwestern as well as western species, Also available is a bark beetle life cycle demonstration kit and two tree round discovery kits (eastern and western species).
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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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Magnifiers, Hand Lenses and Other Optical Supplies
In this section you will find a very large selection of magnifiers, hand lenses, bug boxes, binoculars, microscopes and related optical resources for studying plants.
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Acorn Naturalists Discovery Kits and Games
Acorn Naturalists has developed a wide array of unique hands-on science and nature activity kits, games, and modules for teachers, outdoor educators and parents. In this section you will find a selection of some of educational resources available exclusively from Acorn Naturalists.
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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 Exhibit Display Cases
Acorn Naturalists offers display cases ranging from museum quality clear rectangular displays to glass and plastic-topped Riker-style display cases. Protect and display seeds, botanical displays, dried flowers, pine cones or any other collectables that you want to display and protect.
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Additional Educational Displays
In this section you will find a series of educational displays, each carefully mounted in glass-topped display cases. Each set of specimens has been collected, preserved and prepared by experienced curators, and showcased in sturdy displays that offer a wonderful hands-on addition to classroom learning centers, nature centers, museums or the home.
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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 inches long.
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Block Inks for Leaf Prints
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 30-40 leaves. To expand design options, we also carry ink extender (increases transparency) and ink retarder (slows drying time).
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Garden Flags - Handmade Block Prints
Inspired by traditional prayer flags, these feature hand-carved block prints and are a welcome addition to any outdoor environment. Designed and printed one at a time by a West Coast artist, they are printed on cotton using fade-proof inks. Individual flags are 5" x 7"; strings are approximately five feet long. Note: The inks used for these flags are non-toxic, but initially the flags may have an ink odor which dissipates within days when hung outdoors.
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SALE ITEMS: Botany & Gardening Resources
The botany and gardening resources on sale here are from catalog overstock and special purchases. All of these products are in new, mint condition at prices ranging from 35-65% off. New sale items are constantly being added (and removed when gone).
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