This looks so fun! Creative Carissa shows you how to grow your own Easter grass using wheat berries. What a great alternative to the plastic stuff that’s usually in Easter baskets.
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This has become a tradition for our family. The kids each grow a container of wheatgrass to use as their “basket”. I love the symbolism of new life growing and the beauty of it all at easter time. We’re starting ours tomorrow!
Thanks for featuring my project!
This is such a neat idea. Thanks for sharing!
Use your wheatgrass in your smoothies.
http://www.wheatgrassforlife.com/recipes.htm
Our health food store JUST stopped carrying wheat berries, but this is a really cute idea! I’ll have to share this idea with my friends! I was just planning to use shredded paper from our shredder. My little one isn’t worried about the filling as much as she is with what’s actually in the basket 🙂
Depending on what else they stoped carrying, there are lots of other things that you can do this exact same thing with. Rye berries work really well if you can find those
I’ll check for something else to use when I’m shopping later in the week. This is such an awfully cute project!!!
You could also just put some green construction or colored paper through a shredder.
We always use rye grass since it grows fast-just started ours last week-if you hurry it will still grow in front of a sunny window. Put a wet paper towel over it to keep it moist until it starts sprouting.
How neat!!
Where do you buy the wheat berries? It’s a really neat idea :o)
You can get them at your local health food store in the bulk bins. Probably elsewhere, too, but buying from the bulk bins would allow you to purchase exactly what you needed.
If you don’t have wheat berries on hand, you probably could substitute another grain instead. Or even just grass seed.
Ok, thank you Crystal.
Now that is neat!