How to grow greens in eggshells for Easter - original decor. Indoor mini-lawn for the Easter holidays Easter decor: barley sprouts in eggshells

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Alena Baltseva 04/26/2016 3016 We offer a spring option for creativity with children - to set up your own garden in.

eggshells Whatever one may say, there is nothing left until Easter. If you're preparing for this happy holiday in advance, good idea – set up a mini-garden in eggshells and involve exciting process

children. Egg “pots” with sprouted grains will be a charming decoration festive table

. In addition, if you plant plants in them that you eat (parsley, onions, etc.), for the holiday you will also have fresh herbs from your own windowsill. What are some compelling arguments to try this idea?

Cooking eggshells The most the hard part

This little experiment is to figure out how to break eggs correctly and accumulate a sufficient number of shells. Try to break the eggs not in the middle, but closer to the sharp end (after all, the blunt end is a more stable base), so that “ flower pots

"turned out deeper.

You don’t have to try to break the eggs evenly (and you won’t succeed). Let your improvised mini-garden be in the natural style: the more natural, the more beautiful.

Choosing seeds

The second important point is which seeds to choose for germination. It is better to give preference to plants that “hatch” quickly, otherwise your child may simply get bored waiting for the end of the experiment.

Thyme, parsley, watercress, and chives are suitable for germination on a windowsill.

If the edibility of a plant is not an important point for you, you can try growing daisies or other unpretentious flowers.

• You will need
• Eggshells (optimal quantity - 10 pcs)
• Cardboard egg tray
• Seeds
• Soil for home flowers
• Scissors

Spoon

Egg shells can be painted or painted.

1. Planting a mini-garden
2. Dry the shells. It is advisable not to leave remains of a raw egg in the shell.
3. Place the shells in an egg tray.
4. Take any soil for house plants and slightly moisten it.
5. “Stuff” the eggshell with soil using a spoon, leaving about 1cm from the edge.
6. Place the seeds.
7. Place the tray on the windowsill. If possible, on the south side. For seeds to germinate quickly, they must receive at least 6 hours sunlight daily.
8. Water your mini garden daily. This should be done carefully using a spray bottle so as not to wash off the top layer of soil.
9. Wait for the sprouts to sprout.

To grow greens, flowers or seedlings in perfectly natural conditions you will need:

1. Eggs (homemade or store-bought - at your discretion) and a stand for them;
2. The soil, it must be from the forest, since a lot of substances are added to the bagged soil sold in stores that can hardly be called natural;
3. Water (filtered from the tap or well);
4. Seeds or bulbs.

We don't need the contents of the eggs, so make an omelet or other dish from the whites and yolks. You will need most of the egg, so carefully break off the top with a knife and pour the contents into a cup.

The shells should dry out for 1-2 days.

First, moisten the soil using a small watering can that has a thin spout.

Plant the seeds and wait for them to sprout. I used this method to “shelter” the first flowers - snowdrops - on the windowsill. At home they will please the eye for a long time, and then they can be planted in the garden. When transplanting, you just need to press down the shell so that it cracks in several places and you can lay out the sprouts along with the egg in the prepared holes in the garden.

Hello, dear readers and guests blog about everything you can do with your own hands! When tender green grass breaks through the ground, the soul begins to rejoice. So why not have a piece of this splendor at home? After all, this grass can be easily grown directly .

Besides, Easter is approaching. This will ideally complement a holiday composition and can become the basis for an unforgettable gift. And how cats love this greenery!!!

We will need:

• seeds;
• hydrogel;
• a piece of gauze;
• container for growing grass.

As you understand, we will be growing grass for Easter using hydrogel (for those who don’t know, these are small balls that, when they fall into water, absorb moisture and become large). Why this particular material?

A year ago, I wanted to present my relatives with Easter colors with candies in an unusual package - on the grass. The question arose: how to grow grass for Easter. After all, if you take plain soil, then the eggs and sweets will get dirty. There is also vermiculite, but mold appears in it due to moisture. Therefore, the choice fell on hydrogel.

Now the seeds. Oats are best suited for germination; it gives fast shoots and such beautiful juicy leaves. Only oats from the supermarket will not work, you need the one in the husk, the whole grain. If you don’t have the opportunity to go to the market and buy oat seeds, then here is my advice:

To grow grass for Easter, you can take parrot food that contains oats. You can certainly find it at your nearest pet store.

I also used small millet, it grows more slowly, the sprouts are less tall, which creates an “undercoat” in our green carpet.

How to grow grass for Easter

10 days before the holiday we dissolve the hydrogel. To do this, pour water into a jar and throw balls at the bottom. After 12 hours the gel will be ready for use.

We drain the water and place the swollen balls in a container where the grass will grow for Easter. I had these ordinary ones plastic containers for salads.

Fold the gauze in half and cut it to the size of the container. We wet it in water and place it on our hydrogel. We turn away half of the gauze.

Cover with a second layer of gauze and place on the windowsill. Now our task is to spray the gauze 2 times a day to create required humidity seeds. After a couple of days you will see the first sprouts.

We continue to watch the grass grow by Easter. It is advisable to spray the sprouts themselves every day, and add settled water to the hydrogel as the balls shrink.

This is the kind of grass I grew up with. Below you can see smaller shoots - this is millet, which creates additional density for our living decoration for Easter. If the grass has become too tall, you can safely trim it to the desired length.

The atmosphere in the house will be helped by grass planted a few weeks before the celebration and grown in shells.

It is best to make such an original and unusual green decoration together with your children; they will be happy to join in such an interesting and fun work, and will also enthusiastically take care of and water the sprouts. In addition, planting seeds and caring for them does not present any particular difficulties. This is easy to do and even small children can do it.

To create real green mini-vegetable gardens, you will need ten egg shells (or more, according to your desire), with carefully “removed” top part on every eggshell. The shell must be washed and dried. Prepare fescue seeds, which sprout with soft, fluffy, bright green shoots.

Place a ball of soil in each shell, then add a few seeds (let your children place and plant the seeds) and top it with a little extra soil. Seeds should not be placed too deep. Water the planted seeds immediately after planting and continue watering over the following days (do not overwater), place them under straight sun rays, for example on the windowsill of your kitchen. Under no circumstances should you take improvised pots into the yard or open balcony, otherwise you risk losing sprouts and seeds to birds.

In a few days you will already notice the first sprouts of grass. If your sprouts are given a large number of sunlight, the grass will grow very quickly, in just a few weeks. Trim the grass and decorate with shelled spring greenery for Easter dinner table. A great mood with such a spring miracle on the table is guaranteed for you and your guests! Idea from Andrea.

And more ideas for using chicken and ostrich eggs:

While preparing for Easter, I came across a wonderful Easter decor idea on the Internet: sprouting cereal grains in eggshells.

Sprouting grain is a very simple process and, moreover, very exciting and educational. Therefore this bright craft To decorate the festive table for Easter, we decided to do it together with our three-year-old daughter.

We bring to the attention of all creative mothers and grandmothers our small master class:

Easter decor: barley sprouts in eggshells

Time to make crafts: 7 days.

Tools and materials:

• cardboard tray with 6 large chicken eggs(preferably with a white shell);
• watercolor paints;
• brush;
• a jar of water;
• barley grains (you can also germinate wheat, corn, millet, oats, soybeans, watercress for Easter, or use a special grain mixture for germination for parrots);
• cotton wool;
• saucer;
• soil for indoor flowers or seedlings;
• small plastic spoon;
• watering can or plastic bottle with a narrow spout;
• magnifying glass.

The first day: Preparatory chores.

On the morning of the weekend, my daughter and I went to the market, where, on the advice of a neighbor who germinates cereal grains for Easter every year, we bought barley.

Upon returning home, we prepared a flat saucer, covered its bottom with a thin layer of cotton wool, which was generously moistened with water, and placed barley grains on the saucer in a single layer.

Having soaked the barley grains for germination, we began preparing the eggshells:

• washed thoroughly raw eggs warm water and soap;
• Having beaten the sharp end of the egg, carefully freed the shell from the contents;
• removed small fragments, leaving approximately 2/3 of the eggshell intact;
• again thoroughly washed the shell, this time from the inside, trying to remove as much as possible the thin film from the walls;
• dried the shell.

Second day: Freedom of children's creativity.

The next morning we had to get up early and get ready for kindergarten. As usual, my daughter was not influenced by either persuasion or compelling arguments in favor of the need to visit preschool. But our child instantly responded to the invitation to look at the sprouting barley grains, jumping out of bed in one easy jump.

To finally drive away the dream, we decided to look among our natural history equipment for a magnifying glass. And what did we see when we looked through the magnifying glass? Several grains sprouted tiny white sprouts as the first roots of barley began to emerge. The day started with good news!

To prevent the grains from drying out, we added water to the saucer, so that the barley seedlings were constantly in a moist environment.

Inspired by the successful start of the process of germinating grains for Easter, in the evening of the same day my daughter and I began decorating eggshells that would serve as pots for barley sprouts.

I confess that at first I really wanted to paint the shells of eggs with natural dyes: in yellow- turmeric and in blue - a decoction of red cabbage leaves. But it turned out that natural paints “take” very poorly on the shells of raw eggs.

Without thinking twice, I suggested that my daughter correct my mistake and paint the shells prepared for germinating barley with watercolors. And at the same time, decorate the cardboard tray at your own discretion. And she happily got to work.

Soon we were already admiring the result of children's uninhibited creativity.

Day three: Great responsibility.

I think you have already guessed how our next day began. Of course! From contemplation through a magnifying glass of sprouted barley grains, which by this time had already managed to sprout small roots.

In the evening we took on the most important part of the work of germinating barley for Easter: planting the grains in the ground.

First, we placed the painted eggshells in a cardboard tray decorated using the free-form technique.

Using a small spoon, fill the prepared shells ¾ full with potting soil.

Sprouted barley grains were carefully placed in each shell in one layer.

The sprouted barley was sprinkled with a small amount of soil on top.

Well, anything to do to develop coordination of movements and fine motor skills child?!

The planted seeds were watered.

When watering, it turned out that the bowl from a baby mixer was not the best equipment for this purpose. And in the absence of a watering can with a narrow spout, we later used plastic bottle with drinking nozzle.

Day four: First shoots.

Again, quickly getting up in the morning and observing the progress of grain germination.

The magnifying glass came in handy again; without it we would hardly have been able to clearly see the first tiny sprout that appeared in one of the eggshells.

As a bonus for diligent growth, barley grains receive their daily portion of water.

Day five: Confident victory.

There is no doubt that our careful care for the growing seedlings has brought its generous fruits: the barley sprouts are increasing right before our eyes, adding 1.5 cm per day.

We remember for rapid growth grains need water! We water the seedlings so that the soil in the shell is constantly moist.

And at the end of the day the barley sprouts are already almost twice as tall as in the morning!

Day six: Cognitive retreat.

While our barley sprouts are enjoying the warmth of the spring sun and the moist nutrient medium for germination, there is time to let down scientific base under our hitherto only creative experiment.

For children preschool age easiest to digest educational material, presented in a visual form. For example, in the form of pictures.

After a short search on the Internet, a wonderful series of educational pictures was found from a set of demonstration materials published by IP Burdin S.V. entitled “How Living Things Grow.”