"Poor Grandma!" Amy began to talk with her brother Mark when arriving home.
"I wish we could do something to 1 her up." Amy said.
Grandma had broken her leg. The doctor said she would be in bed for six weeks. Grandma likes caring for 2 and taking a rest in her garden, so she would not like sitting in her chair waiting for getting well again. She would be 3 .
"How about making a terrarium(栽培盒)?" cried Mark. "Terrariums are little indoor gardens that can be 4 in glass bottles. In this way, Grandma can enjoy a mini-garden in her house."
Amy agreed. After looking up information in the library and asking for advice from gardeners, they found terrarium-making wasn't that difficult. But they got a lot to do. Then they 5 began their terrarium-making. To start with, they needed some materials. So they visited the garden shops nearby, searching for the materials and choosing two of Grandma's favorite plants 6 .
Then they began to build the terrarium with several simple 7 . First, they put some drainage materials at the bottom of the bottle to keep the soil from getting too wet. Next, some dark, rich soil was 8 . Then they grew the plants in the soil. One was tall with thin, green leaves. The other was short with bright pink flowers. To make the terrarium more 9 , Amy placed light yellow rocks and bright green moss. Finally, they watered the plants.
When Amy and Mark showed Grandma the new terrarium, she was so 10 . "It is a perfect gift! Thank you, Children!" She said.
