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MoonandBean
05-16-2008, 02:57 PM
My friend is a recreation therapist who also teaches at the college level. She has her students come up with activities (known as "interventions") that they can lead in class and then each student has a library of interventions to do with their clients when they're out in the "real world" working as Rec Therapists. One of her students had them make these "chia pets". They filled old nylons (knee highs work best) with grass seed and dirt. Put the excess nylon in a cup of water to act as the roots and the ball sits on top of the cup. I happened to notice the picture of it when I was posting a picture of my cat, Bean and I thought it would be a cute summer project to pass along. I will take a picture of the "chia" with a full head of green hair as it has now and post that tomorrow. This would be a fun project to do with children :)

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/dmend10/3d200044.jpg

I will update with the hairy little chia tomorrow :)...
MoonandBean
05-16-2008, 03:59 PM
Here is the hairy little guy. I forgot to mention that you may want to glue little eyeball pasties on him :)


http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/dmend10/34292588.jpg
Twisterdog
05-17-2008, 12:28 AM
That is so cute! I wonder if it would work with flower seeds? Hmmmm ... maybe I'll experiment.
MoonandBean
05-17-2008, 06:58 AM
Let us know :)
pitc9
05-17-2008, 08:52 AM
Oh how cute!!

I'll have to make one with my niece, she'd LOVE it!
chocolatepuppy
05-17-2008, 09:00 AM
Hey, that's cute! At first I thought you were making a joke and your cat was the Chia pet!:D
lvpets2002
05-17-2008, 09:39 AM
;) Well that just too cool.. The baby on the table is Adorable also..
MoonandBean
05-17-2008, 10:08 AM
Hey, that's cute! At first I thought you were making a joke and your cat was the Chia pet!:D

HAHA :)


;) Well that just too cool.. The baby on the table is Adorable also..


Thank You! That's Bean :)
Hellow
05-17-2008, 11:41 AM
Heh, this reminds me of the school project we did a few days ago in science class. We made things similar to your homemade Chi-Pet. The only difference was that ours was in a clear jar and had a piece of paper in water to give the grass water.
Taz_Zoee
05-17-2008, 12:25 PM
I've done this before. But I can't remember if it was when I was in school or when I taught in day care.:confused: Ugh, I'm getting too old.