Mystery Seeds

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Materials

Seeds from these fruits and vegetables: apple, orange, watermelon, squash, beans, peach, plum, apricot, corn, mango, papaya, pumpkin, nuts, cherries, sunflower, tomato and cucumber

Whole fruits and vegetables

Index cards

Instructions

1. Cut the whole fruits and vegetables in half to expose their seeds.

2. Make a simple matching game by extracting some seeds from the fruits and vegetables and gluing them on cards.

3. Children match the seed cards with the plant half.More to doMore science: Children can take turns trying to identify the fruits and vegetables by smell and taste.

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