Welcome to the Kids Herb Course! Here you will find many fun items to explore and try out. Check out all the tabs and what each has to offer:
You can listen to any of the stories in A Kid’s Herb Book by clicking on the Stories tab. Flip to the story’s page in your book and read along while you hear the story read to you, or just sit back and listen.
You can also hear all the herb songs in A Kid’s Herb Book. Click the Songs tab and sing along. Or you can turn to the song’s page in your book and play along, too!
Ever wonder what the herbs look like in A Kid’s Herb Book? Click on the Photos tab. There you’ll find many photos and pictures of the herbs in your book. Can you identify any of them growing in your yard? How about in your garden? Maybe along the street or in a local park?
Or maybe you want to make more fun things. Click on the Projects tab and you’ll find new recipes for using the herbs in A Kid’s Herb Book. Some are for healing sickness while others are tasty treats. But all of them are healthy for you!
Now, let’s discover how much you know about herbs after reading A Kid’s Herb Book. First, take the quizzes by clicking on the Quizzes tab. After answering each set of questions, you can press the link that follows and it’ll take you to the answers. There you can learn even more about herbs and the many ways they are used in our lives.
After you read the answers for each quiz, a new link takes you to your herbal trading card! Each card provides information on a new herb. You can print the card, fold it in half and then share it with your family and friends.
Collect all ten herbal trading cards and you may receive your Certificate of Completion in the Kids Herb Course! A link is given at the very end of all ten cards that will take you there. You can print out your certificate, show it to your family and friends and even hang it on your wall! If you have an iPad you can put them in iBooks Library too.
So join me and get started! Let’s adventure into the magical world of herbs and explore all that the Kids Herb Course has to offer!
When you start collecting your Herbal Trading Cards, explore each new herb on your cards. See if you can find it growing in your area. Try using it as medicine. Make up your own story or song about the new herb. In this way, you will expand the collection of herbs you know and can use.
These stories are being read to you by Lesley Tierra, L., Ac.
Hey Kids, listen to my stories about herbs! Just click on the story you want to hear below. You can follow along in your book on page numbers listed with each story.
Pick an herb, learn its name and discover what it’s used for. Now you can make up your own song about this herb. You can play it with an instrument of even just sing it with your voice alone. Share your new song with your family or a friend.
* 1/2 cup mullein oil (or olive oil)
* 1/4 teaspoon eucalyptus essential oil
* 1/8 teaspoon each lemon balm and thyme essential oils
* Shake well and massage onto your throat, chest or back.
* Cover with a warm washcloth or piece of flannel.
* Lightly cook 1 cup hawthorn berries (mainly) with some hawthorn leaves and berries in 2 cups vinegar at a low temperature for up to 30 minutes.
* Turn off the heat and add 1 cup honey.
* Cool and then blend to break open the berries.
* Press or strain the mass through a cloth or strainer.
* Bottle the liquid portion and label.
• 2 cups all-purpose flour (barley flour is less dampening)Instructions
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 5 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
• ½ cup sugar (organic coconut sugar recommended)
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp .ginger powder
• 1 Tbsp. fresh grated ginger
• 1/3 cup crystalized (candied) ginger, chopped into small bits
10. Garlic makes really delicious sandwiches!
11. Cayenne is not hot when its uncooked but turns spicy hot when cooked.
12. Torches used to be made out of yarrow stalks to light pathways in the dark.
13. Fennel has only recently been eaten as a food.
14. Drinking dandelion and chamomile tea can help you feel calm and happy.
15. It’s not important to label your remedies as they can last forever.
BONUS QUESTION:
16. The best way to dry flowers is to either dry in sand or hang up in a dark place.
1. Plants provide so many things for our lives, including:Click here for the answer.
a. Oxygen and beverages
b. Clothing and food
c. Medicines and paper
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
2. Which of the following is NOT true:Click here for the answer.
a. Lemon and orange peels make a tea that helps digestion.
b. Wearing a plum in your navel is just plain silly and doesn’t help motion sickness.
c. Kitchen spices, weeds and herb all have healing powers.
d. Onions, mustard and salt can all be used as healing plasters.
e. Echinacea used to be called the “toothache” root. See page 110 for details!
3. This herb is great for infections:Click here for the answer.
a. Echinacea
b. Fennel
c. Lemon balm
d. Licorice
e. Cayenne
4. Flowers make medicine too, and the following are especially good:Click here for the answer.
a. Honeysuckle, safflower
b. Red clover, magnolia
c. Chrysanthemum and carnation (pinks)
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
5. The following herbs in A Kids Herb Book can be made into a tea:Click here for the answer.
a. Worms
b. Dragon’s blood
c. Seashells
d. Mullein
e. Amber resin
6. These herbs are good for colds and flu:Click here for the answer.
a. Garlic
b. Ginger
c. Yarrow
d. Lemon balm
e. All of the above
7. This herb is great for coughs:Click here for the answer.
a. Dandelion
b. Chamomile
c. Elderberry
d. Plantain
e. Fennel
8. The energy of herbs means:Click here for the answer.
a. The herb is either hot or cold to the touch
b. The herb either warms the body up or cools it down
c. How fast or slow the herb moves
d. Whether the herb is tired or has get-up-and-go
e. None of the above
9. Which is NOT true: Plants don't like –Click here for your answer.
a. Poisonous chemicals
b. Being over-harvested
c. Being stepped on
d. Lack of sunlight
e. Having their teeth brushed
10. Herbs not only heal people but also:Click here for your answer.
a. Dogs
b. Cats
c. Hamsters
d. Fish
e. All of the above
11. Which herb is really good at stopping bleeding?Click here for your answer.
a. Lemon balm
b. Yarrow
c. Ginger
d. Mullein
e. All of the above
12. Where do gardens NOT like being grown ?Click here for the answer.
a. Window box soil
b. Bucket of sand
c. Pot indoors
d. Soil in a basket
e. None of the above
13. Which herb is good for rashes?Click here for the answer.
a. Calendula
b. Marshmallow
c. Slippery elm
d. Elder
e. All of the above
14. Which herb is not only healing but can also be made into a musical instrument?Click here for your answer.
a. Cayenne
b. Plantain
c. Elder
d. Yarrow
e. None of the above
15. This herbal preparation can ease earaches:Click here for your answer.
a. Echinacea tincture
b. Garlic oil
c. Mullein flower oil
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
BONUS QUESTION!Click here for your answer.
16. Which herb can actually draw slivers out of your skin?
a. Yarrow
b. Elder
c. Licorice
d. Plantain
e. None of the above (how ridiculous, plants can’t draw slivers out of your skin!)
* 1/2 cup mullein oil (or olive oil)
* 1/4 teaspoon eucalyptus essential oil
* 1/8 teaspoon each lemon balm and thyme essential oils
* Shake well and massage onto your throat, chest or back.
* Cover with a warm washcloth or piece of flannel.
