I am up to my eyeballs in scrappy supplies (I am making up kits for my classes) but do I actually scrapbook?

Umm, no. 

Not right not at least.  My house has been taken over with boxes and there are only just so many hours in the day.  I mean, who has time to scrap?

But I am dying to!  I like to be creative everyday but it is just not going to happen.  Maybe tomorrow.

So today I thought I would share another project I am working on with Magnus.  I mean some of you have got to be mom's of little ones (Hope you had a great day yesterday.  I know I did!) and might like to do this with your little girl or guy.

So Magnus is facinated with all things growing.  So the other day while waiting in line at the grocery story he noticed a rack of vegetable seeds.  You know, those little packets full of seeds so you can grow your own veggie garden?  So I figured he would love to grow some plants from seed - it is just so satisfying!!

So after much deliberation he narrowed his choices down to peas and carrots.  Very original isn't he?

Well, when you are 4 years old waiting for seeds to sprout can be hard.  So this is what we did with the peas.

We took an old clear jar and put about 3 paper towels in it.  We then placed a few seeds down the sides near the outer edges.  Next we poured in some water - enough to make the paper towels wet.  And that was it.

We placed it by a window and within a few days they had sprouted.  The great thing about this is because the jar is clear he can see them growing right away.  Good for an impatient 4 year old!  If these were in dirt he still wouldn't see anything yet and would probably loose interest.  Right now he runs to check their progress daily (some days more like five times daily!)

So this is them at 5 days.

This works well with beans and peas but not veggies like carrots that will not take transplanting well.  When they get bigger we will transplant them out into the garden (no, I do not have a veggie garden - plan on putting them in with the flowers).

So that is it.  A 99 cent investment and a whole lot of entertainment!  And some peas later this summer...

Just thought you might want to try it.  Back to scrappy stuff tomorrow I promise :)