N goes to nursery in a really great special school in East London and last term they were learning about how things grow so I thought it would be a good idea for her to grow something at home. It's something I'd been wanting to do since last year but then we moved at the beginning of Summer and life got in the way of that. I was thinking it would be fun to grow some green beans because that takes me back to memories of school, wrapping a bean in cotton wool with some water and watching the new plant emerge... In the end we actually planted some sunflower seeds which should hopefully grow into a beautiful yellow flower. N uses sign language (Signalong) and yellow flower is something she can sign and understand the meaning of. The beans will have to wait, for now.
We had the seeds growing for a few days in a tiny pot
Here's N's showing off the nice long roots
The plan was to use the little spade to fill the pot
But I should have known that there's nothing better than your own hands
Into the pot it goes (picture perfect, even if only for a split second- good job daddy!)
And job done, with just a little bit of help, and only a minor injury to the seedling, which lost a leaf...
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