Grow IT: The Original All-Natural Easter Grass Kit Review & Giveaway

Springtime in New York City brings manic weather. One day is sunny and 70 degrees and the next it could be snowing. My little family needed an activity to give us hope and look forward to the next big holiday so the Easter Grass kit from Spots and Ladybugs came just in time.

According to the makers, the Easter Grass-kit offers an eco-friendly, all-natural alternative to wasteful plastic grass.  It’s a fun and educational activity for parent and child to enjoy together in anticipation of the holiday.

The Easter Grass-kit takes just three easy steps:

1. About one week before the holiday, place the starter disk in a bowl and cover with 3 cups of water.  Magically, the disk will expand into fine dirt.  [The disk is made of coconut coir (the outside husk of the coconut).  It is rinsed in fresh water, dried, and then compressed into a disk.] My kids loved seeing the dirt disk expand with the water and took turns stirring it with a wooden spoon.

2. Place the soil into a lined Easter basket.  We lined ours with tin foil and then took turns filling it up with our soil. My four year old has learned some gardening terminology in preschool and quickly informed me that is was to be called soil, not dirt from this point on. I grew up in the city so I don’t have the agricultural background to argue.

3. Sprinkle the seeds (provided) on top of the soil.  Nature will take care of the rest. The seeds will sprout within 24-36 hours, and grow almost an inch a day. Each kit contains enough materials for two medium baskets.

We planted our seeds on Wednesday evening and celebrated the arrival of our grass sprouts on Saturday morning.  By Sunday night, our basket is filled with grass about an inch or two high. I think we’ll need another couple of days for the sparse areas to fill in. We’ve had a fun time visiting our Easter basket on the dining room table to view our progress. I would highly recommend this kit to anyone with small children. It was super easy to follow the instructions, kept all of us entertained and encouraged lots of talk about gardening and growing grass and flowers in springtime.  Although the product is marketed as Easter Basket grass I think we would do follow this fun craft regardless of the Easter Bunny’s impending visit.

The Easter Grass Kits by Spots and Ladybugs retail for $8.99. To find out where to buy in your neighborhood just visit the Sports and Ladybugs website retailer page here.

GIVEAWAY: Spots and Ladybugs is offering Two (2) That’s IT Mommy Readers their own Easter Grass kit. Ends 4/14/11 at noon (12 pm pst).
 

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The mom owners at Spots and Ladybug have offered two lucky winners from That’s It Mommy a free Easter Grass Kit.