How to Make a Bean Stalk for Kids
- 1). Read the "Jack and the Bean Stalk" story to the children. Ask them about their thoughts on the story and on the magic stalk, in particular. Encourage children to discuss how a real stalk may grow in comparison to one filled with magic.
- 2). Plant bush bean seeds during the spring or early summer. Slide on a pair of gardening gloves. Dig a 1-inch-deep hole in a garden. Drop seeds into the hole and recover the hole with soil. Dig a second hole 3-inches to the right or left of the first hole in the same manner. Continue until you have one full row of seeds. Move 20-inches above or below the first row and plant a second row. Water the seeds with a watering pot on daily basis.
- 3). Watch the seeds grow and sprout. Ask children to write their initial impressions of the planting and growing process in a journal. Encourage the children to write what they expect to happen before any growing begins. Task the children to write in their journal once a week on the progress of the sprouting plants and how sunlight and water helps the stalks grow. Measure the height of the plants, if possible, on a weekly basis and record the growth of the plants in the journals.
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