Project For Your Kiddos

I love doing projects with my children at home. Especially when it is both fun and educational. Pictured above are organic apple trees grown from an organic Gala apple that was purchased from a local grocery store. We germinated the seeds in a moist paper towel for almost 2 months in the refrigerator. Now that they were more than ready to plant, we purchased organic soil and some recyclable cups to put them in.

This is a fun project to do with your children. It's educational as well because it opens up so much to conversation. You can teach them to care for nature as well as the difference between contaminated foods and organic foods. And the great part is...they get to watch them grow!

What you will need:

1-2 Organic Apples

1 Paper Towel

1 Plastic Sandwich Bag

Also, some organic soil and recyclable cups when it's time to plant.

Directions:

1. Eat the apples of course! lol
2. Pick out the seeds and place them in a bowl to dry.
3. Once dry, place the seeds inside of a paper towel.
4. Fold the paper towel around the seeds and moisten with water. (We used purified water in attempt to keep it as healthy as possible.)
5. Place inside of the plastic sandwich bag.
6. Put inside of refrigerator.

Be sure to check on them every week or so to make sure the paper towel stays moist. After a while the towel may turn a little brown. When that happened to ours we changed out the paper towel for a new one and placed it back into the bag. Not all seeds are guaranteed to grow, but more of ours made it than didn't.

These also make a wonderful gift for friends, family, and even teachers when they are ready. You could get pots from the dollar store and personalize them with decorations. And a cute touch that my children will be adding is a picture of the apple that the seeds came from glued to a popsicle stick. They are going to stick it in the soil of the pot and on the back will be care instructions and maybe a cute little nature poem.

So, what projects do you like to do with your family? Leave a comment below. It's a great way to share ideas with others and get ideas for your own use. Be sure to check back often because I plan on doing more DIY projects in the near future.