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Fig. 01Bonsai

Grow your own bonsai!

Bonsai is the art of growing a real tree in a small pot and shaping it to look like a big, old tree in nature.

It began in China more than 1,300 years ago and was taken up in Japan, where monks grew little trees as a calm, patient art.

How to play ages 8–148 trees

Fig. 02How to play

Four jobs make a bonsai

You get a young nursery plant. It is not a bonsai yet: turn it into one!

1. 1PruneSwipe down across the scissors to cut extra branches
2. 2WireTrace the dotted line to coil wire on and bend the branch
3. 3WaterHold the watering can over the pot and watch it grow
4. 4UnwireTap each wire to take it off. The shape stays!

Choose a tree about 3 minutes4 steps