I can't believe I only have one picture for this process. A few weeks ago we sprouted lima beans in a plastic bag and some wet cotton balls. Truth be told I had never done this before, but I read several blog posts about it and figured we should give it a shot. The kids loved the process of soaking the cotton balls, putting in their seeds, sealing the bags up, and hanging them in a window. We pulled out our journals and drew the seeds as we "planted" them and started to watch them sprout. We watched them for the space of 2 weeks. In the end none of them did great and several of them did nothing but get moldy. We had some tears on our last day. On one hand it is good to learn about science and seeds and failure. One the other hand, no preschool teacher wants tears.
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