How to Give a Flower Seed Planting Poem as a Gift
Flower seeds are an environmentally friendly gift that will grow and add beauty to the home or garden of the recipient. Giving flower seeds alone as a gift is thoughtful, but if you want to add an even more personal touch, you could give flower seeds accompanied by a poem about gardens or flowers. If you are interested in creating a beautiful gift out of an ordinary but useful packet of seeds and a poem, you'll need to know how to package it creatively.
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Things You'll Need
- Flower pot
- Potting soil
- 1 quart plastic storage bag
- 1 pound dried Spanish moss
- Flower seed packet
- Computer with word processing software
- Printer
- 5-inch-by-7-inch card stock
- Garden spade
Instructions
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Fill your plastic storage bag with potting soil, and place it into the flower pot.
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Cover the bag of soil with dried Spanish moss, which you can find at any craft store in the floral section.
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Lay a flower seed packet on top of the Spanish moss, and stick a garden spade behind the packet so that the handle sticks out of the pot.
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Open your word processing program on your computer, and type out a poem. If you do not want to write it yourself, use one that has already been written, and credit the author at the end of the poem. For poems, see resource 1.
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Print your poem onto a sheet of 5-inch-by-7-inch card stock, and tuck it between the seed packet and garden spade.
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