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A small plastic rectangular-shaped container, cotton wool, cress seeds, pipe cleaners, thin card, black felt tip pens, sellotape and scissors
Step by step
* Line the tray with cotton wool.
* Get the children to add some water until the cotton wool becomes soggy.
* Hand out the cress seeds so that the children can explore them as you talk about size and shape.
* Scatter seeds on to the cotton wool.
* Cut out a face shape from the card and draw on features with a felt-tip pen.
* Sellotape this to the front of the tray.
* Cut the pipe cleaners in half and attach two to the tray as antennae.
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