Seeds
Explore the world of seeds right outside your window! Click on a video playlist for seed songs and seed-saving. Or, scroll down to the Choiceboard for recipes, crafts and more. STEAMventures await!
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Dissect a Flower. Can You Identify its Parts?
Take a Look Inside a Flower With SciShow Kids! Follow along with your favorite hosts, Jessi and Squeaks, as they dissect a flower just like a real scientist.
Examine a flower with help from the video. Which parts of a flower are you seeing? Is there pollen? Where will the seed form? Try it!
Read About How to Make a Fort from Sunflowers and Plant Your Own.
Have you ever heard of a special fort called a sunflower house? It’s real!
Enjoy Storytime With The Sunflower House, read by Farmer Christina at Jones Farms in Connecticut. Learn about how sunflowers grow from seeds to form these impressive forts.
Now find out How to Make Your Own Sunflower House in your yard. You can even add beans!
Harvest and Save Seeds to Plan Next Year’s Garden.
As fall arrives, it can be sad to say goodbye to plant friends. Keep your garden going by saving seeds for next year! You’ll love how fun and easy it is to save seeds.
If you don’t have a garden this year, request a Free Seed Catalog from the Seed Savers Exchange. Get ideas from the catalog about what to grow next year. Cut out your favorite plants to make a dream garden collage.
Learn How Seeds Travel to Grow in New Places. Try an Exploding Seed Pod Experiment!
Seeds travel away from their parent plant to find more water, sun and space to grow. Try this experiment to learn about one way that seeds move and grow into new plants: explosion!
Check out the Unbelievable Footage of Exploding Plants that you’ll recreate with an experiment.
For the Exploding Seed Pod Dispersal Experiment, you need a balloon, a piece of paper and seeds.
Attract Pollinators Like Bees and Butterflies to Your Yard with These Fun Crafts.
Did you know that without animals like bees, hummingbirds, butterflies and even bats, flowers couldn’t make seeds? Learn more about how these animals called “pollinators” do their jobs with this fun Cheese Powder Pollination Activity for Kids.
Now attract pollinators to your garden or yard with these Four Ways to Attract Pollinators to Your Yard.
Learn to Cook with the Four Sisters: Corn, Beans, Squash and Sunflowers.
Learn about the Legend of the Three Sisters from Gardening and Cooking with Farmer Allison.
Now try out a recipe that uses corn, squash and beans. Follow along as Farmer Allison talks about Baking Three Sisters Muffins.
Sometimes the sunflower is added as a fourth sister in a garden. Learn How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds For a Tasty Halloween Treat. You can roast sunflower seeds too.
Explore the Life Cycle of Seeds. Grow Your Own Plants to Watch the Cycle in Action.
Test your knowledge with this printable Seed Life Cycle Scavenger Hunt. Have a grown-up hide the pieces outside for you to find and put in order. If you don’t have a printer, follow along with Sid the Science Kid as he and his friends do the same activity with real plants.
Then, if you have an ear of corn at home, try Easy Fall Science: Sprouting Indian Corn.
Grow Flowers Anywhere for Pollinators to Enjoy with Seedballs and More.
A fun way to help bees, butterflies and other pollinators is to make seedballs. Not sure what a seedball is? Check out this Seedballs Timelapse.
Is there an abandoned corner of your yard that needs some love? Try these Awesome Ways to Make Seedballs With Kids. Or recycle some paper to Make Your Own Paper Seed Shapes. Give them as gifts that can be planted later.
Bonus: Explore a local seed bank or look up your area with the Audubon Society’s Native Plant Database.
Try Recipes with Native American Foods from Chef Sean Sherman of The Sioux Chef Company.
Try out Chef Sean Sherman’s The Sioux Chef - Wild Cedar + Maple Tea. The tea was a favorite drink from his food truck days. Get a grown-up to help identify the correct tree.
Or choose your favorite recipe to make with your family for a special meal. Look through award-winning Recipes by Sean Sherman. Use the photos of the final dishes to help you choose or use ingredients you already have in your garden or kitchen.