Bought these as a birthday present for my great grand daughters 5 and 6. They loved it. They were so excited when they put the soil ingredients in -planted the seeds and watered them and watched the terrariums in anticipation. They expected them to start growing immediately. That would have been something for the Guinness World Records. I explained the growth cycle to them, we put them in a window where they would get some sunshine and lo and behold they started seeing some sprouts. They were so excited! My guess would be that they checked on the terrariums at least a dozen times a day. But in the meantime they learned so much. Wonderful experience for all of us. The plants/grass grew so tall they were growing out of the top of the terrarium.
I bought this for my five-year-old little brother and he was so smitten with this gift! He loves nature and loved putting this together himself. The instructions were easy to follow and it didn't take too long to put together. Maybe 10-15 minutes. In the weeks following he was happy he had a "job" to do as he had to water the terrarium daily with the special spray bottle included. The different plants popped up in about 2-3 weeks. Very cool!
I gave this as a gift for my 7 year old daughter for Christmas. It was SUPER easy to set up right out of the box. It comes with a plastic jar and silver lid with star and moon cut outs on the top for ventilation. It provides everything you will need and everything is nicely packaged and labeled. It was easy: Top soil, blue-ish sand, rocks, top soil again, decorations (it comes with the small bunny and mushroom pictured), and seeds (chia and something else....). We used the little mist bottle that it came with to mist the seeds and in about 24 hours the seeds were already sprouting! Just awesome to watch! And you can decorate the outside of the jar as well, it comes with some cute little decals and glow-in-the-dark mini stars. I would highly recommend this Grow n' Glow Terrarium.
I bought this for my son as a Christmas gift and he loves it! He put it all together the day he got it and has been so diligent about watering it every day. He'll do that before he does anything else when he wakes up in the morning! It was fun for him to decorate as well as watch his seeds grow. We just put in a second batch of seed, so we'll see how that goes.
Our Granddaughter was SUPER EXCITED when unwrapping this gift for her 5th Birthday! Her face lit up and she happily exclaimed: "I can catch firefly's!" And then, it was explained to her that it is a garden in a jar that you plant yourself, and it will glow in the dark at night (Stars/Moon stick-on's) and she was over-the-moon with happiness and couldn't wait to get started on planting. She carefully took each item out of it's plastic as she followed the steps her parent's read aloud to her, (and assisted at times) and she put her garden in a jar (Terrarium) together. This is a very good quality of soil, seeds, little stones, and pretty decorations. It even comes with a little plastic molded rabbit and toadstool which our granddaughter was thrilled to place in her newly planted garden! We can't wait to hear from her on how her garden is growing which should be within a week's time according to the box description. We highly recommend this kit, and will look for other similar kits for future purchase.