Hey kids, here’s an idea for growing your own seedlings, even if it’s still too cold outside! An enclosed container to grow plants is called a Terrarium – isn’t that a cool name?

You can plant just about anything you want in it, but if you want your plants to live, remember you’ll have to transplant them outside or in a pot indoors. You might want to have a grown up help you, especially with the cutting part, ok?

• 2 liter plastic soda pop bottle (with cap)
• Sharp scissors to cut through the plastic
• Some dirt or potting soil
• Seeds (anything will do, flowers or vegetables)
• A little water

1. Peel off the label carefully and throw it away.
2. Wash out your bottle (you don’t want your plants drowning in soda pop, do you?
3. Cut around the bottom of the bottle with your scissors. If your parents are around, they can use a sharp cutting tool.
4. Take off the top, and put some dirt into the bottom. Be careful not to pack it down too much. Seeds don’t like feeling too cramped!
5. Plant your seeds according to directions on the seed packet
6. Water them, but don’t drown them!
7. Cover the base with your bottle (force the top part inside the base if you can, if not, then use some clear tape to hold it together.
8. Put the cap back on the bottle.
9. Put your terrarium in a sunny, warm spot – maybe a window. But be careful not to place it where it’s too hot or too cold.
10. In a few days your seeds will be growing! Watch them grow (and you shouldn’t have to add any more water, since the water that’s in there stays in there and returns to the soil during the night!

Isn’t it wonderful to see all of the plants springing up after a long winter’s nap? God is good and he makes things grow to remind us of Him!