This document provides instructions for a garden workshop where children will plant seeds. It includes a list of materials needed like egg cartons, soil, seeds and worksheets. It describes printing out worksheets to go home with seeds for the children to plant. It also gives a brief overview of photosynthesis and how plants grow. The directions say to hand out planting materials and demonstrate how to plant seeds, having the children follow along and plant multiple types of seeds to take home.

1. Garden workshop #2
Materials:
-egg cartons, cups for seeds
-seed starter soil with nutrients
-plant soil
-seeds, as many varieties as you like
-plastic bags
-‘steps to start a garden’ worksheet
Prep:
Print out ‘steps to start a garden’ sheets and put them in plastic bags along with seeds for the
kids to take home and plant themselves. Hand these out at the end of the workshop.
How Do Gardens Grow?
-Plants grow by taking in water from the ground and carbon dioxide
from the air. Then, they use the light energy they capture from the sun
as the ‘fuel’ to make sugars (or glucose), which they use as food.
Oxygen, a byproduct of photosynthesis, is released through the holes in
the underside of the leaf. Extra water that the plant doesn’t need also
evaporates back into the air, this is called transpiration.
Directions:
Have cut up egg cartons/cups, etc. handy and pass them out to the kids. Hand them all a seed
(of the same type) and demonstrate how to plant it, with them following along. Once they are
done, collect the cups and label them. Pass out more seeds, plant, collect, Repeat. Have them

2. make observations about the seeds and show them the picture on the seed packet of what the
plant will look like. Hand out the bags with seeds for them to take home!