Living Shamrock
Activity for an individual child
Age group: 18-40 months
Duration of activity: 15 minutes
Materials:
- Kitchen sponge
- Scissors
- Water
- Shallow pie tin
- Grass seeds
This is a fun gardening activity, but it takes patience to see the result.
- Cut the sponge into a shamrock shape.
- Fill the pie tin with enough water to cover the bottom. Place the sponge in the water.
- Help your child sprinkle the grass seeds onto the wet sponge.
- Place the pie tin with the sponge in a sunny place. Keep the sponge moist while the grass is sprouting.
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Excerpted from:
From The Everything Toddler Activities Book Copyright © 2006, F+W Publications, Inc. Used by permission of Adams Media, an F+W Publications Company. All rights reserved.
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