Spring Onion Planting

I bought too many onions over the weekends and ooppss..some of them are budding! So, I'm taking this opportunity to let the kids plant some spring onions! All we need is soil and pot. The kids took care of their plants very well, watering and letting in the sunlight. After a few days, they grow real well and the kids are excited. In this activity, the kids learn to be patient, be responsibility and the way of growing the spring onion; at least they come to know that the plants need water, air, sunlight, soil and fertilizer to grow well.

Vegetable That You Can Regrow : Carrot Leaf & Scallion

This is easy. And yes, we fully use every parts of the vegetable. No wastage! We can regrow the carrot's top to have carrot leaf as an add-on to our salad! We can have scallion from the scallion's top that we regrow so, we do not need to buy anymore scallion from the market. All we need is a container and some water to make this regrow project as shown on the photos below.

Beansprout Haircut Activity

This is done a few years ago. And I think that it's kinda fun as the kids were able to exert their creativity on the other hand practising their hand-and-eye coordination.

So, the material that we need: egg shell, marker pen, scissors, green bean and cotton. It's simple and easy but do require some times to complete this activity.

First, I let the kids to draw some facial expression on the egg shell then all we need to do is putting the cotton into the egg shell followed by the green beans and pour a little water into it. Now, all we have to do is wait for 3-4 days for the beansprout to grow!

When the beansprout has grown to the height that you desire then, you may cut it any hairstyle that you like.

Green n' Red Plant

Oh my, it has been two weeks since the school reopened yet I'm still struggling with the workload! Our very first planting was done during the school holidays but now only I have the time to blog it.

As it was a two-weeks of holidays, we brought the girls to Science Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Please refer to the blog if you missed it :) http://hanyi88.blogspot.com/2012/06/dinosaur-live.html In the meantime, I bought some holiday workbooks for both girls as they requested. Yup, they finished it within the time frame.

Our holiday project was planting!! I, myself was never good in planting so, we decided to plant something easy. Something that grows easily and grows up fast! Growing beans will be fun! As I have said that I'm not a green hand, I'm confused with the beans!! Should we use green or red beans?? Ooppss...there are two kind of red beans! In the end, we bought some green and some red beans, tried to grow both beans.

Provided the girls with some cotton balls, papers, pencil, colour pencil and bottles. Again, we reused the mineral bottles as our pots for the plant :) Drawing pictures of beans, colouring the pictures (indicating green and red beans) and writing down the name and date were fun as they were so excited over the project! Ooppss... wrong spelled name there..hahahaha..now only I realised!

As NingNing is still learning to write, she only drew and coloured the beans!

Both girls placed the cotton balls in the 'pots' while I pasted the picture that they had drawn and coloured. Then, they carefully placed the beans according to the pictures. Watering the plant was the last step.

The next day, the girls were so anxious to take a look at their plants. They were overjoyed when they saw the tiny bud grew out of the beans. Again, they watered the plant and put it aside in the meantime trying to finish their holiday workbooks. On the third day, they were even excited to see their plants growing into seedlings! Simply love hearing them saying "WOW" and laughing away. Then, NingNing tried to give the plants more water in order to let it grow taller. Luckily, SyuenSyuen stopped her and told her that they only need a little of water every day.

So, every day the girls will water the plant and of course all the "WOW" was always been heard and they were so looking forward to take a look at the plant every morning! NingNing was very contented with her green bean plant as it grew really well (she put lots of green bean in!!) hahahaha...Both girls were so happy when their plants grow real tall!! What is there more than seeing both girls grow up happily!!

Compared to the green beans, the red beans grew slower but still it grew! Thus, the girls learned that the green beans grew faster than the red beans and they both needs air, water and sunlight to grow! I was thinking to plant spring onion the next time. Hopefully, it will be a success too.