Botany
April 5, 2023
EASY Grass House – Plant Activity for Kids

EASY Grass House – Plant Activity for Kids

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This outrageosusly cool grass house is not only easy-to-make, but a fun plant activity for kids too! This seed activities for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, toddler, first grade, and 2nd graders allows children to learn about seeds, germination, growing plants, and is a fun STEM activity too! All you need are a few simple materials to make this summer activity for kids along with your plant lesson, spring theme, and more!

This outrageosusly cool grass house is not only easy-to-make, but a fun plant activity for kids too! This seed activities for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, toddler, first grade, and 2nd graders allows children to learn about seeds, germination, growing plants, and is a fun STEM activity too! All you need are a few simple materials to make this summer activity for kids along with your plant lesson, spring theme, and more!

Plant Activity for Kids

Looking for an EPIC plant activity for kids? Try these stem activities for toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, and grade 2 students. In this planting seeds with preschoolers children will learn about germination, what seeds need to grow, and make a fun STEM project too. This grass house is simple to make with endless personalization. Whether you are a parent, teacher, summer stem camp leader, or homeschooler – you will love adding thies seed activity to your botany unit, spring activities for kids, or summer activities for kids too.

4-8 plain sponges scissors toothpicks Hot glue gun (optional but makes construction quick) Plate seeds (any grass seed that goes quickly such as wheat berries, chia, or alfalfa seeds sprout quickly)

Grass House

Start by gathering a few simple supplies you may already have on hand at home!

  • 4-8 plain sponges – any color
  • scissors
  • toothpicks
  • Hot glue gun (optional but makes construction quick)
  • Plate
  • seeds (any grass seed that goes quickly such as wheat berries, chia, or alfalfa seeds sprout quickly)

stem activity for kids

Plant experiments for kids

The first part is the STEM part. You will design you sponge house. Once you have an idea in mind, I suggest using a sharpie marker to mark where you want to cut.

stem project for kids

STEM Project for Kids

Cut the spone to complete your design.

Plant experiments for kids

Seed activities for kindergarten

Use toothpicks and or hot glue gun to hold the walls and roof to your seed house together.

HINT: Make sure not to put hot glue on the outside surface where the seeds will need to send roots down into the spongue holes.

stem activities for toddlers

Summer Activity for Kids

Your house can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. Much of the design complexity will come from the age of your children. Upper elementary age students will creat much more complex houses. Younger students may not even want it to be a 3D house project.

seed house

Seed House

We made a “lip” around the outside to make the seed grow as a barrier. The seed will stay and grow on any relatively flat surface.

seed germination activity for preschoolers

Planting seeds with preschoolers

Start by watering your spongue house to get it good and wet. Now snooth out your chosen seeds and place on your house.

planting seeds with preschoolers

Stem activity

Spray your grass house several times a day with water bottle. How long it takes to grow will depend on the type of seed and watering, but it should sprout in a couple days.

seed activities for kindergarten

Stem activities for toddlers

Within a week it should be super cute! It will keep growing as long as you keep it in sunlight and water it. Kids can use it as a house for fairies or forest animals if they like.

This outrageosusly cool grass house is not only easy-to-make, but a fun plant activity for kids too! This seed activities for kindergarten, preschool, pre-k, toddler, first grade, and 2nd graders allows children to learn about seeds, germination, growing plants, and is a fun STEM activity too! All you need are a few simple materials to make this summer activity for kids along with your plant lesson, spring theme, and more!

Seed germination activity for preschoolers

This is such a fun, hands-on plant project for kids of all ages! Plus I love that it also incorporates a STEM actvity for kids to engineer their own grass houses too!

Your kids love mazes, but they've never seen something as incredibly COOL as this  maze potato! This potato maze will blow kids away as they watch potatoes grow, learn about plants and their need to head towards the light. This plant activity for kids is perfect for spring or summer learning. All you need to try stem activities are a few items you probabaly have around the house to try this plant experiments for kids from preschool, kindergarten, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too!  There are certain science projects that make you go WOW! This color changing flower activity is one of those! Children learn about capillary action for kids with this amazing, colorful flower experiment. Try this colour changing flower experiment with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade and 4th garders too. Simply print pdf file with food coloring flower experiment worksheet and you are ready to play and learn with flower science! Are you learning about plants with your kids? Most children learn about plant life cycles and sprout a seed, but this photosynthesis experiment allows students to learn about photosynthesis for kids is a very simple, easy plant experiment. This photosynthesis activity is fun for all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and up.

Plant Activities for Kindergarten

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Plant Life Cycles for kids  parts of a plant flipbook  Grow a Plant Sequencing Worksheets  One of my favorite things about summer are all the pretty flowers growing everywhere. And no flower stands out like the tall, cheery sunflower! Learn about flower life cycles in this life cycle of a sunflower worksheet pack with over 65 pages! Not only are there sunflower life cycle worksheet choices, but sunflower worksheets to practice math, and liteary skills such as alphabet matching, tracing letters, counting, subtracting, singular / plural, graphing, telling time, and so much more with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Simply print pdf file with flower worksheets and you are ready to play and learn with these life cycle worksheets.

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Flower Crafts

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Flower Printables

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Have you ever heard of a lemon volcano? Kids are going to love this fun, creative,volcano experiment that screams summer! This simple lemon volcano experiment is perfect for curious kids from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. All you need are a few simple materials to make some amazing erupting lemon volcanos! Protecting your skin from the sun's UV rays may be a hard, abstract concept for kids to understand... at least until they get a sunburn. This simple sunscreen experiment allows kids to learn about the importance of using sunscreen this summer. This summer science is perfect for all ages from kindergartner, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th graders. All you need are a few simple materials to try this sunscreen construction paper experiment. The goal of an amazing science experiment for kids is to grab kids attention and make them wonder why did that happen, how could that work, and I want to try that! This leak proof bag is such a simple science experiment for kids that explores polymers. What's best is this amazing science experiment with everyday materials! Try this water experiment with kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too. Looking for really fun beach activities for kids? This sand volcano is not only a really cool thing to do on your summer vacation, but a fun summer science experiment too. This volcano experiment is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too.  This summer activities for kids is super quick and easy with NO clean-up.

Summer Fun

Looking for more outdoor activities for kids and things to do in the summer? Your toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, and elementary age kids will love these fun ideas to keep them busy all summer long:

If you are looking for a fun unique activity using eggs, you will love this silly egg head craft. This egg shell diy chia pet is cute, simple and silly spring activities for kids. This egg shell craft is fun for toddler, prsechool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too! Looking for a fun summer activity for kids? You are going to love blowing colorful snake bubble. This sock bubbles activity is super simple and such an easy summer activity idea for toddlder, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders too. It takes blowing bakcyard bubles to a new level making long, colorful snakes with a simple technique using a sock and a plastic bottle. You've got to try this bubble snake experiment. Use these super cute beach worksheets to sneak in some fun summer learning in between all your summer activities to keep up skills and avoid the summer leaning loss. These free beach printables include letter find, beach i spy, beach math, counting, addition, skip counting puzzles, and so much more. This HUGE pack of over 70 pages of beach worksheets for preschool, pre k, kindergarteners, and first graders is so handy! Simply print pdf file with summer worksheets for preschoolers and you are ready to play and learn with a beach activity for kids! Looking for a fun, engaging pasta craft? This pretty stained glass pasta project has so many different possibilities to let your children explore their creativity, create something unique and beautiful, and strengthen coordination with those little hands. In this pasta art you will use dyed pasta to creat a beautiful stained glass craft. This stained glass art for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders.

Summer Activities for Kids

Nothing says summer like a big juicy watermelon! We whipped up a bath of this amazing, scented watermelon playdough for our upcoming watermelon theme! This homemade playdoh recipe is super easy-to-make, soft, and such a fun watermelon activity! Use this kool aid play dough recipe as a fun summer activities for preschoolers, toddlers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students. Even your reluctant learner will get excited to try this easy science experiment where you will product a HUGE erruption! In this classic Mentos and Soda Experiment you will mix a couple simple materials to produce a chemical reaction. This mentos in Coke project is a MUST TRY for kids of all ages from preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th graders too. Even adults love trying the coke and mentos experiment. Don't worry, we'll give you the diet coke and mentos experiment results explained so you get all the learning out of this fun summer activity for kids! Tin Foil Art Looking for the best sidewalk chalk paint recipe? We think this sidewalk chalk is perfet because it is super quick, only uses 2-ingredients, and makes such bold, vibrant colors for kids to color with. Use this diy sidewalk chalk paint with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders to let their imaginations SOAR! Let them use the homeamade chalk to create dragons, butterlies, flowers, trees, aliens, and more. Creating and using homemade sidewalk chalk paingit such a fun, simple, and classic summer activity for kids of all ages!

Fun Summer Activities for Kids

Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! She has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids ABCs, science, English grammar, history, math, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com

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