So both my nieces visited me last week and I tried to teach them something new every morning after their bath in our little home pool. While having a chit-chat with the older one who is 8, she just said that they don't have any plants at their home which I obviously already knew, but then I decided to teach her how to plant a sapling using stuff that is already available in our homes. I taught it to her just so that she knows it is possible to plant a sapling without having to ask her mama for much.
This is something we did :
Stuff that we need - easily available in our homes - Zero cost
--A plastic bottle.
--A knife to cut plastic bottle.
--A fork to do holes in bottom of plastic bottle so that the little plant can have some air circulation.
--A utensil to put soil in bottle.
--Few stones to put in bottom of plastic bottle as the holes.
--A plant from which you can take your little bud.
Step 1 - Cut the bottle - Make your pot
I cut the bottle in two halves thinking it would be easy one and the only way it makes sense. But my niece suggested that we should cut a rectangle on bottle surface, it would look pretty when hanged, she watched that in television somewhere. Se made faces on the bottle shape that I cutout first so I was left with no option but to take another bottle and do her way. Also because my purpose was to teach her and make her happy so she won here.
My way - her way (together) :
The winning way (hers):
Step 2 - Bring the soil and the sapling into picture
Then we took proportionate amount of soil into our bottle and a little sapling out of a plant with its roots.
Then we did two holes in bottom of our bottle using the knife. Then we put some stones over the holes so that the soil does not get out of it. Then we put some more soil and set the baby plant properly. Then we watered it.
And we are done!
Then I hanged the plant with a ribbon just to that it looks the way my niece wanted - A hanging plant. Also it looked cool and since bottle is round, I feel it must have been a comfortable setup for the sapling itself.
Here are my two little sapling students, sitting smiling and learning. The little one who is 3 hardly understood anything but she was asking all the while about what are we doing. The elder one was actively participating and making faces of curiosity and happiness.
