Bubble Guppies Juice Box Planters

Bubble Guppies Juice Box Planters

Junior gardeners can get growing when you place soil and seeds in recycled juice boxes. Our cover-ups tie on to boxes like little garden aprons!

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Bubble Guppies Juice Box Planters

Craft Features

Parent Supervision Needed
This craft requires extra parent involvement and a watchful eye, because it may require sharp tools or intricate handiwork.
Lots for Kids to Do
This craft has plenty of steps kids can do, like tracing, coloring, decorating, and cutting with safety scissors.

Developmental Skills

Discover with Us
Discover with us skills relate to science/technology. They include: observing and predicting, asking questions, and investigating nature, objects, Earth, and space.
Create with Us
Create with us skills involve self-expression, experimentation, and imagination through visual arts (like painting and sculpting), dramatic play, cooking, and dance.
Ages: 3-6

Materials

  • Juice boxes
  • Printable character cover-up images
  • Glue stick
  • Self-laminating sheets
  • Hole punch
  • Jute or other sturdy garden twine
  • Potting soil
  • Easy-to-grow seeds, such as zinnia seeds

Directions

  1. Step 1

    Cut the top off each of the juice boxes. Rinse and let dry thoroughly. With the tips of scissors or a pen, punch three tiny holes in the bottom of each box for drainage.

  2. Step 2

    Meanwhile, print the character cover-up images and cut them out.

  3. Step 3

    Parents laminate each cover-up.

  4. Step 4

    Use the hole punch to add one hole to each side of each cover-up. Snip a l0-inch piece of jute. Pass one end through one hole from the back to the front of the cover-up. Repeat with the opposite end of the jute, passing it through the remaining hole. Set aside.

  5. Step 5

    Have kids fill each box with potting soil. Then add one to two seeds, such as zinnias, to each box. (Follow the planting directions on the seed packet.)

  6. Step 6

    Center one cover-up on the front of each box, tying the jute at the back, apron style. Place the boxes on a windowsill. Garden note: Make sure not to over-water because these planters are small. A tiny, tiny bit every two or three days is fine. And you may be able to go even longer.

Tip: We laminated the cover-ups so they will stay dry during watering.
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