Create Your Own Bottle Garden

Activity setup:

1. Prepare the container:
   
   *Have an adult supervise or help with cutting the bottle and making holes.
   
   Empty and rinse a large plastic pop bottle, cap it and lie it on its side. Carefully heat the tip of a nail with the barbecue lighter.
   
   Using the hot nail tip, poke two small holes at each end of the bottle. Cut a rectangular opening at the top of the bottle so itʼs centered between the holes.
   
   
2. Make the hanger:
   
   Cut two, 60-cm pieces of rope, twine or string.
   
   Tie a loop at one end of both pieces of rope. Make sure the loopʼs knot is bigger than the hole in the washer. Slide the washer down to the knotted end of the rope.
   
   Thread the ropes through the bottom and top holes on each side of the bottle.
   
   
3. Plant the garden:
   
   Add pebbles to the bottom of the bottle for drainage. Then fill with potting soil.
   
   Planting time! Choose seeds or young plants, herbs or flowers and set them in the soil, then water them.