three crafts from the vegetable patch (and which one to start with)
carrots that slide, an onion that opens, peas that pop. three autumn crafts, three different kids.
- ages
- 3–8
- time
- one per afternoon
- mess level
- some scraps
- you need
- scissors, glue stick, one split pin for the onion
at a glance
All three come from Pull, Peek & Grow, my autumn e-book. Here's what each one does, and who it's for.
pull the carrots
Three carrots hide in a pocket of soil. Your child pulls them out one by one, and then the real question starts: which one is longest?
good for: the youngest. no split pins, no fiddly bits. and it sneaks in comparing lengths without anyone calling it maths.
peel the onion
Four layers swing open on a split pin, one after another, until you find the sprout in the middle. Close it up, start again.
good for: kids who like a surprise. the grown-up makes the hole for the split pin (play dough underneath, pencil through, done). the rest is theirs.
how many peas?
Pull the tab and the peas pop out of the pod, one by one. Count them out, count them back in.
good for: counters. the 4-year-old who counts every stair on the way up will love this one.
so which one first?
Start with the carrots. Quickest win, no extra supplies, and a child who just pulled three carrots out of the ground is a child who asks for the next craft.
the other eight
Pull, Peek & Grow has 11 crafts in total: a pumpkin with a lid and seeds to count, a sunflower that turns to face the sun, a cabbage with a snail hiding in its leaves, and a harvest wagon with wheels that really turn. Every single one moves.
see inside Pull, Peek & Grow →
Not sure yet? try the free worm first →
that's it. go find the scissors.
send this to a parent who needs a quiet afternoon