Introduction to K Cup Seedlings

This K Cup Seedlings project reuses K Cups to grow seedlings.  It is a great way to reuse your K Cups and teach your kids about seed germination.  After our seedlings got too large for the K Cups, we reused even more materials by replanting them using half of an oatmeal container and soda bottle, and a Styrofoam egg carton.

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Materials List for K Cup Seedlings

potting mix
-seeds of your choice
-a few used K Cups
-oatmeal container
-2 liter soda bottle
-Styrofoam egg carton
-stickers
wiggle eyes
-2 pipe cleaners

Step 1: Clean our your K Cups and add potting soil

The nice thing about plastic K Cups is that they have a filter inside of them already.  This allows for easy drainage of water.  Clean out the K Cup well, remove the lids and add potting soil.

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Step 2: Plant seeds of your choice

Your seeds will come with care instructions on the package.  Plant the seeds and water them as per the instructions.  We planted flower seeds, I would have liked to plant peas or something else we could eat, but it was the middle of winter and these were the seeds we had.

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Step 3: Transplant the seedlings when they grow too large for the K Cups

You can transplant your seedlings to larger pots, but we wanted to turn this into another “green” art project, so we made this home made planter out of recycled materials.  Begin by cutting an old fashioned oats container in half as well as a 2 liter soda bottle.  We kept the bottom of the soda bottle so it could contain water but we poked holes in the side of the soda bottle so the water could drain a bit.

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We put more potting soil into the soda bottle and secured the other end with the lid to the oatmeal container.  Giving our planter legs using an old Styrofoam egg container really brought it to life!  We gave it antennae, eyes, a nose and a mouth with some stickers, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes.

Finally, we transplanted our seedlings into their new container.

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We had to put the planter on a plate to catch the water and we made sure to only water it a little bit at a time.  But overall, we were very happy with the outcome!

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