Eggy Head

Inspired by the story of The Last Tree in the City by Peter Carnavas, this activity demonstrates the resilience of nature and how life can grow in the most unusual of places. In addition this activity teaches skills such what plants need to grow, listening to instructions, maths and motor skills. My son loves this activity from start to finish; drawing on the egg shell, checking and carefully watering the cress each day and finally picking the cress that he has grown. He demonstrates such a sense of achievement when he spots the first tiny cress shoot poking through.

Set Up

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.

We then dip the piece of cotton wool into some water and push that gently inside the clean egg shell. Next the seeds are carefully poured from their little envelope onto the cotton wool and the bald eggy head is left somewhere warm. We store our eggy heads in a piece of an egg carton but a narrow cup or egg cup would also work.

Please remember to check on the cress daily and give them a little drink when needed. We give ours a drink daily.

Once they have started to grow they can easily be pulled out or cut with some scissors.