Materials:Disposable, plastic, clear kitchen glove
Cotton balls
Seeds of different varieties
What You Do:
1. With a permanent marker, write on each "finger" of the glove what you will be planting. We decided to plant carrots, beans, squash, zuchinni, and lettuce!
2. With a small bowl of water nearby, have the kids each dip one cottonball into the water.
3. Gently squeeze out the excess water.
4. Sprinkle some seeds onto a plate and have each child "collect" several seeds by pressing their soaked cottonball onto the plate. 
5. Place cottonball into the cooresponding finger of the glove. 
6. Repeat these steps for each new seed. 
Once all 5 fingers have been filled with seeds, tape shut and hang from a sunny window!
They'll look kind of funny hanging from your window, but the kids will sure get a kick out of it! The seeds will begin to germinate in just a few short days. Oh, I can't wait to see their faces when that happens! I'll be sure to take a picture or two of the gloves sometime next week!
I first learned about this idea from Ag in the Classroom several years ago while teaching. They have some great follow-up lessons to go along with it if you wanted to take this activity a bit further!Once they begin to germinate, clip off the ends and go ahead and plant in the backyard! And the best part is, that oftentimes I can get my pickiest eaters in my family to try some new vegetables when they actually grow them on their own and see the entire process from start to finish. They will take great pride in their little gardens and be very curious to how their produce ends up tasting!
NOW...to the winner of the Dripstick giveway! Drumroll please.....
Congratulations!!! May you be blessed with lots of cute ice-cream smothered faces this summer with no icky hands!! :) Thanks everyone for joining in on the fun! 
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Kris, what a cute idea! My daughter came home from a field trip to a farm with a "Living Necklace" similar to what you've done here. It was a small plastic zip-loc type pouch (only about 2" x 3") attached to a cord to hang from their necks, with a soaked cotton ball and seeds in it as well. She was so excited about it! I love your idea of using a plastic glove!! What fun!
ReplyDeleteOH! This is BRILLIANT!!! We are going to do this!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great alternative to digging in the dirt. I will give that one a try with my 4 year old. We would love to plant a garden, but our land is so shaded with trees that it's hard to find a big open area where the sun could come through. Someday I will have a greenhouse..I love to garden!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteWoo- Hoo! I WON! I can't even believe it... yea!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! We will have to try this for sure!!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea! My eldest is really into gardening since she has a big back yard now so she will love this!! Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute!! And it's see through so they can see the whole thing happening! Great idea... I'm gonna have to try this. You are such a wealth of crafty info! It's great!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Kris!!! That is too cute! My girls would love doing that! I can't wait to see the other pics!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! My kids are going to go crazy for this, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome, what a great idea! I'll be linking.
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea! I am going to try this with my preschool class this week. I'll let you know how it goes! I had a hard time finding the right kind of gloves but the bakery man at our Publix sold me 12 for 25 cents!
ReplyDeleteThis is great for when my son is older!
ReplyDeleteWe have done seeds in many ways, but never like this. How fun!!!
ReplyDeleteKatrina
OK...I tried this out with my preschool class. They loved putting the project together. We hung it in the window of our classroom. Then the Swine Flu came to our town and shut down all the schools for a few days. I came back today to find that all our seeds had sprouted!!!! The kids got to take them home with them and they were sooooo proud! Thank you, thank you!
ReplyDeleteUpdate! We have a bunch of sunflowers! Come check out my blog! Thanks for such a super great idea! :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Linking to my blog!
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