Cress egg head instructions

Wet some cotton wool and put it on top of the kitchen paper. Make sure there is a gap between the cotton wool and the top of the egg shells or yoghurt pots. Put some cress seeds on the cotton wool and press them down gently. Put your egg shells or pot in a sunny, warm spot - try a kitchen windowsill. Make a Cress Head using a yoghurt pot Included in the March box you will receive approximately 200 cress seeds and a piece of cotton wool. We use half a clean egg cup to grow the cress in but if you don't have any eggs you could use an old yogurt pot,a toilet roll or a small cup. The first thing we always do when making an eggy head is to draw a face on the clean egg shell. Put 2 or 3 damp cotton wool balls into the egg shell. Sprinkle cress seeds on top of the cotton wool (we added quite a lot as I let Harry sprinkle it in) Leave them in a sunny spot and wait for them to grow. If the cotton wool dries out add a little extra water (we had to do this a couple of times) Our cress heads grew really quickly. How to grow cress caterpillars - instruction s. Firstly cut the egg box in half so that we have 3 mini plant pots in a row. Next we cut a caterpillar face from the egg box lid. Paint the whole caterpillar and face green and then allow to dry. Using sticky tape attach the caterpillar face to the body. Stick on curled pipe cleaners for antennae. 2) Place egg contents (yolks and whites) in a Tupperware container for later. Never waste a delicious egg! 3) Rinse your eggshells with warm water and set upside down on paper towel to dry. 4) Once dry, decorate each egg head however you wish. I chose to keep it simple, but feel free to get as creative as you can. 5) Allow your decorations to 7) Wet your seedling starter and squeeze out excess water. 8) Place 1/2 peat pellet inside 1 eggshell. 9) Sprinkle cress seeds inside the eggshell and gently press into the peat pellet. 10) Place egg heads in a warm and sunny place like your kitchen window-sill and add drops of water to them each day. 11) Watch them grow and enjoy! A set of instructions posters showing how to make and grow a yogurt pot cress head Menu. Literacy. Maths. Topics. Signs and Labels. Class Management. Special Needs. Other. Popular. Growing a Cress Head Instructions Growing a Cress Head Instructions . RELATED ITEMS . SUGGEST A RESOURCE . Description A set of instructions posters showing how How to grow a cress head What you need. Eggs. Spoon. Egg holder. Cress seeds. Cotton Wool. Felt tip pens - sharpies work really well. Instructions. Boil the eggs in water until they are hard boiled. Gently break off the top with a spoon. Spoon out the contents of the rest of the egg. Carefully decorate the shell. Cakie filled up some plastic tubs with cotton wool balls and watered them until they were damp (but not soaking wet.) We decided to try and grow a cress head each and also some cress in the shape of her first initial too! Playful literacy mixed up with a whole lot of investigative fun. What better way to start spring than with planting some of your own seeds and watching them grow! This May, I wanted to get a little creative when it came to my springtime planting. I came across the cutest little kitchen window-sill cress growing craft, and simply had to take part. What I didn't expect was the sheer joy I got in watching it grow every day! From seeds to a full head of hair What better way to start spring than with planting some of your own seeds and watching them grow! This May, I wanted to g