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Fun Kids Activity How to Make Wildflower Seed Bombs

March 8, 2024 | Leave a Comment
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This fun wildflower seed bomb activity can be done anytime of the year. Check out more ideas too at Free Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook.

Are you spending some time in nature in your homeschool? Gardening? Exploring wildflower fields or forest trails?

Fun Kids Activity How to Make Wildflower Seed Bombs

Making wildflower seed bombs is an easy and fun way to teach kids about plants.

Even when you can’t get outdoors due to weather or you just need to stick close to home you can have a lesson in nature that also turns into a pretty little art project and then a functional thing to enjoy! 

Making homemade seed bombs is a great fine motor activity and can be used as a springboard to talk to your child about how pollinators help keep our food supply going.

Dropping these seed bombs in your garden or container around the yard will draw in beautiful butterflies and bees and they also make lovely homemade gifts.

You can expand on this activity by adding additional activities, books and different themes like butterflies, bees, flowers, and gardening.

Check out these books that I found that match up great with this DIY project.

6 Books About Pollination

Whether you’re learning about how seeds spread or about pollinators, add some of these books to your home library.

What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem

Grassland ecosystems can be found on nearly every continent. Countless animals and plants live in them. So what difference could the loss of one animal species make? Follow the chain reaction, and discover how important honey bees are.

Save the Bees (Save the Earth)

Journey with a bee & two inquisitive children to discover the importance of pollinators!

From exciting and adventurous to educational and captivating, Save the Bees tells the story of three friends working together to make Clover's pollination route easier!

This engaging children's book that is perfect for Earth Day teaches about pollination and includes activities after the story is over to interact with the reader directly!

Animal Pollinators (First Step Nonfiction ― Pollination)

Many plants depend on animals to help move pollen around so that the plants can reproduce. Readers will see how hummingbirds, mice, bats, and other animals play a big role in pollination. Simple text and supportive photos and diagrams help readers understand key ideas and details about this important science concept.

What is Pollination? (Big Science Ideas)

Pollination has been in the headlines for the past few years because it directly affects the food supply on Earth. Flowering plants produce fruit or seeds only after pollination. Pollination by insects is a critical function of all land ecosystems. Most orchard fruits, vegetables, and some field crops are pollinated by insects. Pollinators are threatened by pesticides, invasive species, and habitat destruction, but they are especially threatened by a lack of awareness about their importance. This informative book filled with stunning photographs will focus on the critical fact that protecting pollinators means having food to eat. It will help children look at insects in a very different way.
Teacher’s guide available.

A Seed Is Sleepy: Nature Books for Kids

Turn each page to explore the amazing world of these garden wonders through watercolor illustrations that bring to life nature landscapes filled with seeds, flowers, plants, leaves, and trees. A NATURE BOOK TO TREASURE: From tiny redwood seeds to giant coconut seeds, from bright red-orange mountain laurel seeds to pods of fluffy milkweed, curious kids will find a wealth of information and inspiration in this fascinating picture book.

We Are the Gardeners

In the #1 New York Times bestseller We Are the Gardeners, Joanna Gaines and the kids chronicle the adventures of starting their own family garden. From their failed endeavors, obstacles to overcome (bunnies that eat everything), and all of the knowledge they gain along the way, the Gaines family shares how they learned to grow a happy, successful garden.

Whether you have preschoolers or highschoolers they are sure to enjoy this hands-on project and study that pairs nicely with a wildflower unit study.

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Seed Bomb Activity

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Garden Crafts for Kids

Here is what you will need:

  • silicone mold
  • hole punch
  • craft paper
  • wildflower seed mix

Homemade Seed Bombs

I like a mix of wildflowers best for seed bombs as vegetables and many other flowers need more spacing, but you can choose from many types to choose yours.

In the spring you might even find them 2 packs for $1 at Dollar Tree.

Some of the best types for seed bombs are poppies, cornflower, marigold, cosmos; hollyhocks, verbena, or wildflower mixes. 

Seed Activity for Kids

Use a hole punch or tear out small pieces of paper from each paper color you would like to use.

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Even younger children can get a good fine motor workout punching out paper dots for the seed bombs.

We used the hole punch until our hand got tired and then went to tearing.

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Place paper in small bowls and soak them in water, you can mix colors for a rainbow effect if you like or keep them separated.

Let them sit for about 20 minutes, no worries if you forget them for a while, it will still be fine.

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Flip paper and water into a fine mesh strainer and drain, remove as much of the moisture as you can, this will help them dry out faster in the mold.

Squeeze if needed to remove the excess water.

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Return to bowl and stir each color together with a small pinch of seeds.

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Press firmly into silicone mold getting it pressed into all the edges so you have a nice clean mold. Fill to the very top.

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Flip mold over on a towel or several layers of paper towel to dry, leaving it in place while it dries.

Wildflower Seed Bombs

Allow to dry completely, it will probably take them overnight to dry fully depending on the size of mold that you use, put them out in the sunshine to dry quicker.

Fun Kids Activity How to Make Wildflower Seed Bombs

Pop each seed bomb carefully out of the molds and store in a pretty jar until you are ready to use them.

Wildflowers are normally the easiest to grow and it’s such a fun payoff for learning about gardening. What easy gardening activities are you doing with your kids?

You’ll love these other gardening and nature activities for kids:

  • Wildflowers Unit Study & Lapbook 
  • Foraging and Feasting Nature Unit Study and Lapbook 
  • Kinder Gardening to Celebrate Nature and Science
  • Hands-On Mixed Media Flower Art Fun Nature Study
Fun Kids Activity How to Make Wildflower Seed Bombs

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