Here’s another great way to have fun with food - Make your own mini green house and grow a fruit tree or plant in it. Kids enjoy watching something they planted grow and they are learning along the way.

Here’s how you do it…

Mini Greenhouse

•    2 clear plastic cups
•    Tape
•    Fruit seeds
•    Water
•    Paper towels
•    Marker

Write the name of the type of seeds on a piece of tape and also the child’s name to place on a set of cups. Let the child wet the paper towel in the water, fold it and place it in the bottom of one cup. Place the seeds on top of the wet paper towel. Put the second cup over the first and tape in place on one side.  Place the “greenhouses” on a sunny windowsill.  If too much moisture accumulates inside the cup, lift the top cup for a while. When the seeds have sprouted the children can replant in a pot with dirt.

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