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By Sarah Whiting

Seed Paper Cards

PLANTABLE SEED PAPER IS PAPER READY-IMPREGNATED WITH SEEDS. ALTHOUGH EXPENSIVE IN THE SHOPS IT IS SUPER EASY AND CHEAP TO MAKE AT HOME USING SIMPLE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. USING SEED PAPER AVOIDS ALL THE HASSLE OF PLANTING TINY SEEDS AS WELL AS HAVING TO THIN OUT SEEDLINGS

Materials − 2-ply kitchen roll, cotton buds. − White glue * (non-toxic and water soluble) − Selection of seeds.

Steps

1. Choose the shape. You can make the seed paper any shape you want. We opted to make ours fit some pretty terracotta plant pots that we found at the garden centre. If you decide to make seed paper for vegetables, you might prefer to cut yours into strips ready for planting in perfect rows. 2. Next you need to cut the kitchen roll into your chosen shape. It is easiest to cut it into the required shape before separating the sheets. Once you pull the two layers of the sheet apart, leavie one edge just attached as this makes it easier to fold back down into place neatly, sandwiching the seeds. 3. Add tiny dots of the white glue onto the inner surface of the kitchen roll shape, spaced appropriately for the seeds you are using. Then use a moistened cotton bud to pick up the seed and place on the dot of glue. 4. Once all your seeds are in place, run a thin line of glue around the edge of your paper and press the upper layer back into place. 5. If you are gifting your seed papers, you can make a card to hold them in. Using a blank card from your craft stash or you could re-use cards that you have received. 6. We marked out a circle slightly larger than our seed papers keeping a little of the fold of the card and added two tags before cutting out our shape. (See the picture on the bottom left.) 7. You could add a pretty label to stick on the front of your card as well as some that can be used to label the pots that your seed papers are planted in.

* I use Bostik White Glue, it’s water soluble and non-toxic. It’ll hold the seeds in place until planted, but once watered it will soften and allow the seeds to germinate safely without adding any nasty chemicals to their growing environment.