DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Blooming Love: DIY Plantable Seed-Embedded Paper Mache Shapes

Our DIY Plantable Seed-Embedded Paper Mache Shapes provide a unique and thoughtful way to share your love for nature. You can use these shapes as standalone ornaments or attach them to a homemade card for an added personal touch.

Made from colorful scrapbook paper, tissue paper, or newspaper, these shapes are sure to sprout smiles!

Materials:

• Scrapbook paper, tissue paper, or newspaper
• Water
• Flour
• Mixing bowl
• Seeds of your choice (small seeds like wildflowers, herbs, or lettuce work best)
• Scissors
• A flat surface covered with wax or parchment paper for drying

Instructions:

1. Create Paper Mache Paste: In a mixing bowl, combine one part flour with one part water to create a smooth, pancake-batter-like paste.
2. Cut Your Paper into Shapes: Using scissors, cut your chosen paper into shapes of your choice, such as hearts, stars, flowers, suns, or simple geometric shapes. If you're using colorful paper, consider how the colors will enhance the finished product. Make 4 or 5 of each identical shape.
3. Add Seeds to Your Paste: Add your chosen seeds into the paper mache paste. Gently stir to distribute the seeds throughout the paste.
4. Coat Your Paper Shapes: Dip each paper shape into the seed-infused paste, ensuring that it's fully coated. Remove the excess paste by gently pulling the shape between your fingers.
5. Add More Seeds: Sprinkle seeds over the wet shape and add another shape overtop. Repeat with a few more identical shapes and sandwich them together. On the top, you can add some squares of paper mache newsprint, tissue paper or scrapbook paper to give your project a more patchwork look! Remember to sandwich a sprinkling of seeds between layers.
6. Dry Your Seed-Embedded Shapes: Place the wet shapes onto your parchment paper or wax paper-covered flat surface, and let them dry completely. This could take up to a few days depending on the thickness of your shapes. Keep the shapes out of direct sunlight to protect the seeds.
7. Optionally, Attach Your Shapes to a Card: Once your shapes are completely dry, you could attach them to a homemade card or cardstock using glue or paper mache paste. If doing so, be sure to include instructions for planting the seed paper in the card for the recipient!

And there you have it – your very own seed-embedded paper mache shapes! Whether you choose to attach them to a card or use them as standalone seed bombs, these shapes are sure to spread joy and greenery. Let's make every day a little greener, one seed at a time!

Happy growing!
Leanne

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