Seed Mosaics

We’ve been studying seeds in our Botany unit and so I thought it would be fun to make a craft/art project that would tie in with it. I purchased a few different kinds of bean seeds and lentils and peas so we could make some seed mosaics.

The kids first drew pencil sketches on a piece of cardboard. Then, we covered each section, one at a time, with glue. We then covered the glue with the seeds, making sure it was fully covered and then let the loose ones all off.

Eventually the whole picture was covered and the kids each had their own beautiful mosaic.

Austin made a tree and a flower.

Samara made an orange tree (it was originally an apple tree but we had no red seeds). the picture keeps loading sideways for some reason.

Victoria made a fish swimming in water.