Learn to make mini Gardens in glass bowls with this private Terrarium Workshop conducted at your home with all the required materials.
Location: At Your Home, Mumbai
Don’t have space or time to maintain a garden? Then a Terrarium is just what you need. These attractive mini-gardens are an entire ecosystem and fit conveniently in a glass container. Terrariums can survive on ambient light and with the least amount of maintenance, with zero water-leakage. A terrarium garden can be small enough to fit on your desk at home, or a bigger more ambitious project. And what makes them truly special is the scope of creativity they offer; like a landscape designer you can choose the theme of your Terrarium Garden and add cute decorative elements to create a complete visual.
But building your first Terrarium can be tricky, which is for the Terrarium Making Workshop at Home the Instructor will come over with the entire kit and teach you how to create your very own glass garden in an 8” bowl and be provided with enough material to make 1 – 2 more terrariums in small jars.
What is included in the tour
- 2 Hours workshop at home
- 1 Terrarium Kit:
- 8-inch traditional glass bowl – as it helps one learn better with the mouth of the container being wide
- Coloured stones
- Soil Mix- compost, coco peat and red soil
- 3 variety of good quality terrarium plants- usually indoor plants
- Moss
- 1 pc of accessory like a Miniature house, animal, bench etc.
- e-notes are provided.
What is NOT included in the tour
Additional kits (which can be purchased separately at a cost of Rs.500/- per kit).
You will learn how plants end up creating their own little ecosystem inside your glass containers. The fun hands-on workshop covers:
• Brief History & Evolution of Terrariums
• Material Specifications
• Types of Plants suitable
• Steps of Assembly
• Hands-on Practicals
• Watering and Aftercare
• E-notes
The Workshop can be attended by up to 5 participants at no extra cost, so feel free to invite your friends and family. Kits for the additional participants, if required, will be charged.
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Getting Started
- The Instructor will start with the set-up for your experience. You will need to provide some newspapers to help easy cleaning. The workshop can be conducted on a table or on the floor as well.
- The Instructor will narrate an interesting story about how terrariums evolved by showing exciting pictures on the laptop/tablet. And also introduce you to different types of terrariums.
- You will learn about all the necessary tools, material specifications and tips on sourcing them.
- You will be taught everything about plant selection and different types of plants that can be used for Terrariums and also help you remember some names.
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Playing with earth
- Then begins the fun part of learning how to make your mini ball of earth! The hands-on fun begins with creating several layers of coal, gravel, soil mix and understanding the importance of each of them, so that you never miss a thing and always know why a Terrarium could sometimes not do well.
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Go creative
- Here’s when you begin designing your mini Garden. Right from building in levels to adding the right accessory, the options are limitless. The Instructor will share a few ideas and guide you from there.
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Keeping it pretty.
- Once you are thrilled looking at the beauty you have created, it’s time to learn how to water and care for your Terrarium. The most important part!
- With this, your terrarium is now ready to become the highlight of your room or a hand-made gift for someone special.
