Grow Your Own “Magic” Beanstalk

 

Earth Day is April 22nd, this is a great project to help teach your little ones about plants and their important role in our eco-system.

What you will need:

• Some sort of dried bean, we used large lima beans
• A container with a tight fitting lid
• Paper towels

How to:

• Dampen your paper towels with water, they should be thoroughly wet, but not dripping wet.
• Place paper towels in bottom of container
• Place seeds on top of paper towels
• Close with a tight fitting lid and place in an area that gets some direct sunlight.

Your beans should split upon almost over night, and with in a few days will have sprouts. My oldest son loved this, every morning he would check it and say “Look Mama, our beanstalk is growing bigger!”, he truly believed it was a “magic” beanstalk.

If your children are older you can implement a lesson plan about the anatomy of a seed. Here is a great link to help you do that.