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Perhaps you’ll make a bean, tomato, and watercress salad, or maybe you’ll add it to your favourite sandwich fillers? Benefits of growing your own cress As we said, growing your own cress is fun! Keep it as your own enjoyable pastime, or get the whole family involved in (what can be) such an educational activity. To make these four Halloween classics, you will need the following items:• x4 empty toilet roll tubes. For extra tall character decorations, you can also use empty kitchen roll tubes!
Next, cover your tubes with cling film, but be sure to poke a few holes to give the seeds room to breathe.
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STOP! Before you recycle that empty kitchen roll tube, put it to one side and join us as we explain how to grow cress on a kitchen roll. Stuff an empty toilet roll with any of the following materials to make lighting a fire easier: Newspaper, lint, paper towel, wood shavings and pure cotton rounds all work well. Store wrapping paper Paint an empty tube a skin colour of your choice. Again, allow for two coats and always make sure the paint is fully dry before moving onto the next step. Hotjar sets this cookie to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether it was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It’s one of those projects that also appeals to different age groups. My two and three year old love playing with it but it would make a great rainy day project for an older kid. How to
Decorate the tube in any way you fancy. I just glued some colourful paper at either end (I like the fact that you could still see the actual tube). I also added a corrugated paper cuff to the middle of the tube. I did this so that you can hold the cuff with one hand and rotate the tube with the other. Next time you finish a toilet roll or kitchen roll, instead of recycling the tube – save it. There’s plenty of clever ways to put them to good use in your home and garden.
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When it reaches two inches tall, all you need to do is snip off the cress and think about all the lovely ways in which you’ll use it. You can keep spare cords, chargers and wires organised by wrapping them and then stuffing inside an empty toilet roll tube. Get Halloween ready with Oceans as we show you how to make Halloween decorations using empty toilet rolls!