How to plant a Sunflower - by Wesley

Our class arrived back at school on Monday after a lovely 2 week holiday.  As part of our Inquiry learning about 'colour', we planted sunflower seeds.  We will tell you more later as to why we did this, but in the meantime here are some instructions on how to plant a sunflower in case you would like to do it.


What you will need:

• a section of an egg carton by cutting is with scissors
• seed mixture
• gloves (plastic)
• water in a spray bottle
• one sheet of newspaper

Instructions:

1. Put plastic gloves on your hands
2. Cut a section of the egg carton
3. Fill the egg carton with seed mixture
4. Poke a shallow hole in the seed mixture and put the seed in
5. Cover the hole with seed mixture - just enough to cover the seed
6. Water the seed with spray bottle with water inside
7. Cover the egg carton with the seed mixture and with newspaper.