Kids Coop - Cress heads

 
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Its Kids Coop time again, please link up your kids orientated posts and check out what others have been up to. This week I'm linking the following:

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(Goblin is 42 months)

I'd forgotten how much fun cress it. Its also such a great quick and simple way to show children how seeds grow. I blew three eggs and bashed in their skulls (she said in a melodramatic way). Then I filled the shells with a few cotton wool balls and some water. Finally I drew some faces on the shells and sa them in a cut up egg box. 

I invited Goblin to liberally shake seeds into the shells. He did a good job of getting them spread across the cotton wool. We sat them on the windowsill and waited. After just one night the seeds had germinated. After two they had tiny green leaves. At day three the stalks were poking over the top of the eggs. Goblin had checked on his cress heads every day and was really surprised on day five by how bushy they were.

On day five we decided they were in need of a haircut. So I got out the scissors. And chopped!

I tried to convince Goblin to try the cress but he wasn't keen. When I tried it and realised how spicy it was I thought it was just as well that Goblin hadn't had any. But I left our cress heads to resprout never the less and within three days they had a full shoot of hair all over again. What a satisfying activity.

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