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The Kitchen Experiment Garden: Growing Plants from Food Scraps

April 23 by Kaley

Grow a windowsill garden with your kids using food scraps (with a free printable)

The other day I walked into my mom friend's kitchen and found the top of a pineapple sitting in a jar of water. I thought it was odd so I immediately quizzed her about it and she politely told little-ol-woefully-uninformed-me that if you plant the top of a pineapple, it will sprout.  What?! I was still digesting this info. a few days later when my contributor Kaley (a wonderfully creative mom in her own right) emailed to ask if she could do her next post on growing stuff from food scraps. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Creating & Engaging, Educational Activities, Kaley, The Make & Play Vault Tagged With: Earth Day activities for kids, growing experiments, growing from food scraps, growing with kids, kids science activities, kitchen science, kitchen science activities, science experiments for kids, STEM activities for kids

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