Seed Viewer Project

Last semester for science we covered plants and their needs. Doodle Bug really enjoys science, but does not enjoy book work so much so we compromised and created this seed viewer project.

It's really simple - we used a clear plastic cup, few red kidney beans, some brown felt and a few paper towels. We cut the felt to fit and stuck it in the cup, placed the beans between the cup and the felt and wadded the paper towels up and put them in the middle of the cup.

Doodle Bug made two of these and kept one in the dark depths of her closet and the other in the window sill to enjoy some natural sunlight. At first, the plant in the dark grew much more quickly, but when the plants started to grow above the cup line the plant quickly died. We concluded that this was because seeds don't need sunlight (since they are normally buried anyhow) but plants do.

We did discover that the roots will grow into the felt so we suggest using construction paper instead if you try this project at home. Doodle Bug's beans that grew in the light did really well, but they did not survive the felt-ectomy to re-pot them.