Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Arts & Crafts Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Blog State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! We'll send you regular emails filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now   ACTIVITY Growing up the Beanstalk By Rae Ann Hirsh An Activity for Preschoolers Children hear fairytales about wondrous things that grow and change. This activity invites the preschool child to observe a bean seed “growing up” and encourages them to notice the changes that take place. Curriculum Area Science Before You Start Cover your work area with a plastic drop cloth. Let's Begin 1. Invite the children to help fill the pot with potting soil. Help them push the pole down the center of the pot. Have them gently push three magic beans a half an inch down in the potting soil, next to the pole. Place the pot outside or in a sunny location. Water the plant and observe its growth. Talk about how the plant is changing. When the plant produces beans, encourage the children to pick and eat the beans. You may want to open them up or cook and eat them. Furthermore Take pictures of the bean’s growth. Also record anecdotal observations and collect children’s drawings. Put the photos, notes, and drawings together into a beanstalk book when the plant has reached maturity.   Bean seeds Pole Potting soil Large pot Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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