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Sunlight
Leaves use sunshine to make their food. That's why plants lean toward windows!
Green magic
🌿 How Plants Grow
Every big plant started as a tiny seed. When a seed gets water and warmth, it wakes up and starts to grow roots down and a shoot up. The leaves catch sunlight and turn it into food in a magical process called photosynthesis — plants literally eat sunlight! ☀️ They also make the fresh air we breathe. Thank you, plants! 💚
What plants need
💧 The 4 Plant Helpers
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Water
A drink helps plants stay strong and carries food from the roots to the leaves.
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Soil
Dirt holds the roots and is full of yummy nutrients — plant vitamins!
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Air
Plants breathe in a gas called carbon dioxide and breathe out the oxygen we need.
Try it yourself
🫘 Grow Your Own Bean
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- You need: a clear cup or jar, a paper towel, water, and a dried bean (like a kidney bean).
- Scrunch the wet paper towel and press it against the inside of the cup.
- Slide the bean between the paper towel and the side of the cup, so you can see it.
- Put the cup on a sunny windowsill and keep the towel a little damp.
- In a few days, watch the root grow down and the green shoot grow up! 🌱
- Once it has leaves, you can plant it in soil and keep it growing. 🌿
🌟 Aahana's tip: Draw a little picture of your bean each day in a notebook to make your own growing chart!
Did you know?
💡 Plant Power Facts
- 🌻 Sunflowers turn their heads to follow the sun across the sky during the day!
- 🎍 Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant — some kinds grow almost a metre in a single day!
- 🌳 The biggest trees on Earth are giant sequoias — taller than a 20-floor building.
- 🍓 A strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.
- 🌵 Cactuses store water inside them so they can live in the hot, dry desert.