The files for this activity are available here in Canva
Supplies
- Expired seeds (also some old beans/lentils from my pantry and some cheap birdfood I purchased)
- Cardstock and thin cardboard
- Markers (brown/black) and crayons
- Glue
- Stencils
- Tweezers
- popsicle sticks
- Bowls and platters
I really liked these pictures on krokotak of using seeds to fill in shapes cut in cardboard. However, I didn't think I could recreate them - the cardboard I had was too thin and I'd need to use my die-cut to make a large number, which would have flattened thicker cardboard. I spent a long time looking at possible alternates, thinking most of them were too thin. I ended up buying polyurethane sheets that were 1/2 an inch thick and then die-cutting shapes into them. In the end, people ended up just using them as stencils, drawing the lines inside them, so I might as well have just supplied plastic stencils. Nobody really used the tweezers - they just poured the seeds onto the glue.
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| I received seed donations from other libraries who have seed libraries - the kids enjoyed investigating the plants and pulling the seeds off. Some of them just wandered off with whole dead plants. I don't know what they were planning to do with them... |
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