This week we have continued on our journey of becoming sunflower experts. A question was posed… ‘Can Seeds Travel?’ The children were unanimous in their initial thoughts that seeds can’t travel! We carried out some research to discover if this was true or not.

We found images of seeds such as dandelions and sycamore seeds – discovering that both travel by the wind; grass seeds that stick to the fur on dogs and berries that birds carry away – so animals can make seeds travel too!

Following this we made ‘seed bombs’! This was great! We used recycled paper and turned this into a pulp using a food blender. We added a variety of seeds and then pushed the pulp into ice-cube trays. Once they have dried out the children will bring them home to disperse the ‘seed bomb’ in their garden.

Through this investigation our intial thoughts that seeds cannot travel have been challenged and now we know that seeds can indeed travel – and in many different ways.