Outdoor Hour Challenge:
A fun way to learn about plant parts is to grow a table top garden with a few root vegetables. This week I challenge you to make a table top garden with your children. Keep it simple and start with one veggie and see the way it grows roots and stem and leaves. This is an easy project for any age.Â
Instructions on Hearts and Trees: Indoor Nature Study Idea: Table Top GardenÂ
These instructions include a free downloadable notebooking page to go along with your table top garden.
Add your table top garden to your nature table as an on-going nature study experience.
Activity Suggestion: Create a Garden Flowers Nature Table
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Free Printable Nature Table- Garden Flowers
Getting Started Suggestion:
If you already own the Getting Started ebook, complete Outdoor Hour Challenge #3. Use this challenge to help you draw your table top garden as you make your observations. Use the notebooking page in the ebook or the free one noted in the challenge above.Â
I have really wanted to do a little thing that goes along with the children’s picture book, “Tops and Bottoms” by Janet Stevens. I don’t know if you have read it, but the rabbits trick the bear into an agreement to receive as payment “Tops” or “bottoms” of crops. If the bear picks “tops,” the rabbits plant root crops. If the bear picks “Bottoms” they plant leafy crops. I think there would be lots to work with as a nature study.
(If you haven’t read it, check it out from the library. It only takes about 5 minutes to read through.)
We started our tabletop garden this afternoon, we had a carrot and a sweet potato on hand to use. We will do a new printable sheet every few weeks as the plant begins to change. Thank you for the idea!
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