| Category |
Activities |
| Badge |
Gardening |
| Advancement |
Growing Things |
| Time to allocate (mins) |
15 |
| Outcome |
To create plant pots and plant seedlings in the pots. The pots are biodegradable so the pots can be planted directly once seedlings ready for transplant.
|
| Resources |
Newspaper 6 cups Water 1/2 cup Flour
Blender (optional) Bucket Muffin tins (or similar moulds)
|
| Instructions |
- Take your newspaper and shred it into strips. Make sure not to use glossy ad pages.
- Place the strips into a bowl and cover with warm water. Sit for 3-5 minutes.
- Place wet paper into blender and add cold water until blender is two-thirds full. Blend until paper is soft and moldable. (You can leave overnight as well to turn into pulp if you don't have a blender)
- Run paper mix through a fine mesh strainer and squeeze out extra water to form a pulp.
- Add ½ cup of flour and mix well.
- Take the paper and flour mixture and form cups around a muffin tin. Use care to keep all sides and the bottom evenly matched with paper mixture.
- Place the muffin tin in a warm dry spot for at least 24 hours.
- When pots are completely dry, you can pop them out and start planting your seeds
|