Plant A Rainbow. The time for gardening in our little neck of the woods is finally here!
As we prepare our space for planting, we are also dreaming up the colors and faces of the flowers we hope to see sprout from the soil. Not long ago my friend sent me over the etsy link for these rainbow seed bombs. I fell in love. I decided I needed to figure out how to make them! Aren't they lovely?!
If you want to give them a go, we did some playing around with recipes online and found a system that worked. Here's how we made them. To make you will need: colored construction paper seeds (we used a wildflower pack so we could plant all the colors of the rainbow!) Food processor cheese cloth elastics cups & bowls To begin: Tear up your paper. Therapeutic process I tell you. Pour water over your paper bits until the paper is covered.
Let your paper soak for 15 to 20 minutes. Taking one color at a time... add the bowl of water and the paper to a food processor and blend. Roll them in your hands until they are nice and round. DIY Seed Bombs. DIY Seed Bombs DIY Seed Bombs – I’m not sure what the weather’s like where you live but in Victoria spring is definitely in the air.
The trees are full with cherry blossoms, the fields are covered in daffodils and tiny tender green leaves are poking out of the bushes. It’s hard not to be in a good mood when you can look outside and see the plant world waking up from a long winter’s sleep. To help ring in this beautiful new season we’ve decided to make seed bombs. Seed bombs are a fun way to add beauty to hard to reach and neglected green space. Supplies: Directions: After you’ve torn up all your paper, put the pieces into the blender. Looking for more kids crafty stuff: Mandala Coloring Page, Rainbow Loom Perler Bead Bracelets, Blank Faces Coloring Page, Jellyfish Friendship Bracelets, 10-Minute Superhero Costume, Printable Robot Coloring Page , Family Movie Night Tickets Thanks for reading!
Seed Bomb Tutorial About the author Like this: Like Loading... Eggheads with cress hair. By Cathy James on April 11th, 2014 We make these Eggheads with cress hair every year because the kids think they’re so funny.
If you get them ready four or five days beforehand they will have grown a full head of hair ready for the Easter weekend – which you can then snip off to enjoy with an egg sandwich. You will need: empty egg shells (try to just break off the top to empty them, so you have a good size shell left to use), felt pens, stick-on wobbly eyes (optional), cotton wool, crees seeds, an empty egg box. To make them: 1. 2. 3. 4. Dump A Day Amazing Garden Ideas (20 Pics) How to plan your garden classroom. Here are my tips on how to plan your garden classroom for lots of growing, playing and learning this year.
How to plan your garden classroom I’m a planner by nature, and I find that taking time at the beginning of the gardening year to think about how we want to use our garden space pays dividends right throughout the seasons. A little thought now saves time, money and energy later in the year – plus it gets us all excited about the wonderful things to come! Planning a garden for growing, playing and learning Think about the space you already have and how you use it now. Follow these tips for small family gardens to maximise the space you have available, especially thinking about how to combine space for growing, playing, relaxing and learning. Then make a plan. Making a plan with your children also lets you weave maps, measuring, maths and art into your garden project. . - measure out your garden space with tape measures or strides :: What needs sunshine, and what needs shade? Seed growing experiment. By Cathy James on May 15th, 2011 Add some maths and science to your garden with this growing seeds experiment.
Another idea for extending gardening with children today, with a ‘growing seeds experiment’. The children have planted lots of seeds in our garden and seen plants growing, but so much of the action takes place beneath the soil that we decided we’d take a closer look at germination and see what seeds really look like when they start to grow. Here’s how we conducted our garden investigation. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go on - share this! 6 Great Ideas for Potted Plants.