Cress Head

Growing cress is a great way to introduce young children to planting. It usually only takes a week for the cress to fully grow so the results are much faster than growing flowers and vegetables. The seeds germinate in just a couple of days so you can observe the changes on a daily basis with your child. It's also interesting to see how the cress grows towards the light and you can move them around to demonstrate this.



Creating a cress head makes it even more fun. My toddler is probably less patient than most and inspected his cress head every time he passed it until his comments were 'do waiting'. The googly eyes were a bit skewed by the time the hair had grown from so much touching.

Time: 10 minutes
Age: Under 5's
Level: Easy

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These examples are very simple but you could really dress them up with older children. Decorate a toilet roll as a body for the egg shell cress head or stick tissue paper to your yoghurt pot.

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#under_5 's
#easy
#cress
#gardening
#growing
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