What
to Do:
1.
Ask your adult helper to use the nail to poke little holes in the
bottom of each roasting pan. You should make about 1 hole per square
inch.
2.
Put your roasting pans, side by side, on top of the foil. Crimp the
edges of the foil so that your roasting pans are sitting on a foil
tray. Put a thick pad of newspaper in a sunny window, put the foil
tray on top of the newspaper, and put the pans, side by side, on top
of the foil.
3. Fill the roasting pans with potting soil you should
leave about an inch at the top.
4. Measure
the width of your roasting pan garden, and cut three strings about
2 inches longer than the width. Measure the length of your roasting
pan garden, and cut six strings about two inches longer than the length.
Tie a straw to each end of each string.
5.
Stick the straws into the garden so that you create a grid.
6. Draw
a picture of the garden and the grid on a piece of paper. Give each
square a letter (square A, square B and so on). Now, youre ready
to plan your garden!
7. Together, decide what you want to plant, and how many squares
youll assign to each kind of plant. Write the name of the plant
in the square. Be sure to check the package to see how much room each
seed will need to grow.
8. Plant your seeds, and give them enough water to dampen the
soil. Watch your garden grow!