Preschool Plant Lesson - Watch Living Plants Grow Indoors

If it’s still cold for you to grow things outdoors (or even if you can!) your preschooler can watch things grow indoors too.

Here’s a hanging carrot basket you can make with your preschooler. Water and watch it grow!

What You Need:

carrot

toothpicks

string

What You Do:

Cut off the pointed end of the carrot.

Hollow out the remaining end with a sharp knife. Here is what ours looked like:

http://freepreschoolactivities.net/images/hollowcarrot.jpg

Making the carrot into a hanging basket with toothpicks and yarn, so it looks like this!

http://freepreschoolactivities.net/images/hangingcarrot.jpg

Water the end that’s pointing up, and watch it grow!

I’ll post more photos when our carrot hanging basket starts growing.

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