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Make a Sandwich Bag Compost

April 20, 2015 by Sarah 6 Comments

Earth Day is coming up (April 22nd, just a few days away) making this idea perfect for today!

The idea of composting is AMAZING – taking food waste and garbage, turning it into rich soil, to then grow food again. AMAZING! But it is tough for children to really understand this. It takes time … a lot of time. But not when you do it on a teeny tiny scale.

compost Experiment

We made a little compost a few weeks ago, and it worked great! The kids could really get the idea for how a compost works – and best of all you only need two things:

Sandwich bags and a straw.

That’s it! Well, of course your food waste, “browns” (like egg cartons), and water too.

Within a couple of weeks you will have soil. Pop on over to CBC kids to read all the details!

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Filed Under: Explore, Other Learning Fun, Science Tagged With: Earth Day, science

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Comments

  1. Jennifer says

    April 20, 2015 at 7:52 am

    Hi. I love this idea! Thank you for sharing. I’d love to share it with others, but your link that says pop over to cbc kids doesn’t go to a post on this. Is that fixable? Thanks!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      April 20, 2015 at 8:11 am

      Hi Jennifer – so glad you like this idea! Thank you very much for letting me know I inserted the link incorrectly. It should be all fixed now. Thank you for sharing as well! Have a great day.

      Reply
  2. Lee says

    April 23, 2015 at 6:03 am

    I love this idea — being able to visually see the breakdown is great for both parents & kids. I am gathering ideas on soil as 2015 is the “International Year of Soils” https://www.soils.org/
    ~Lee

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      April 26, 2015 at 8:22 pm

      Glad you like this idea Lee – good luck with your endeavor!

      Reply
  3. Corey says

    January 7, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    What type of “browns” are you referring to? Would dead leaves work?

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      January 8, 2021 at 6:57 am

      dead leaves would work, paper would as well.

      Reply

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