Propeller seeds: fun and easy kids activity

Last week, on our walk home from school,

my girls saw these 'propeller seeds', and asked me what they were.

I told them they came from a tree,

and showed how you can throw them in the air,

and see them spin like a propeller.

They thought it was the coolest thing ever.

So we collected some and took them home.

They had such a good time playing with them.

SOOO nice when kids are so easily entertained...


I told them that these were actually seeds, and that the wind helped new trees to grow when the seeds were planted elsewhere. I realized they understood, since my 7-year-old said: "Just like dandelions..."


We decided to plant some of the seeds.
I wasn't sure if we should stick the whole thing in the dirt, or peel the seeds out, so we did both.


Today it's exactly ONE week later, and we have this:

So our little experiment was very successful...


And I have 2 very proud girls, who check on the progress daily.

We might transfer some to our yard even...

About birds and green pigs...

Today we made these birds and pigs, to create our own game.

My girls were SO excited to make this, and I was surprised how patiently they made their pom poms. 

It was a super simple project!

I had already seen it on some blog a while back, when my kids weren't infected by the bird-bug yet.

So today, while my oldest had to stay home from school with a bad cold, this seemed the perfect craft to tackle.

I had all materials on hand, just some yarn, felt, googly eyes and cups.

The kids did good making the pom poms, and I handled the hot glue gun to glue it all together.

At first I had them make the pom poms with a single strand of yarn, but I found out it was quicker and easier to just "fold" the yarn so that they wrapped their disks with four strands at once.

And after we were done creating, they could start playing.

This made for some happy little girls!

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Guess what this is...

Can you guess what is pictured here?

It kept my two oldest girls entertained for quite a while...

I saw the idea somewhere online,

and thought it was brilliant

(both literally and figuratively)

Simple, but so much fun!

Even before they started playing, they asked if they could do it another time!

Anyway, this is what you are looking at:

Glowsticks in the bathtub = lots of fun!!!