"I Am A Young Botanist" Badge

June 27, 2015

Nowadays, it is not easy to raise a kid, man.

This June holidays, Jay has a couple of school project. It is voluntary project, but the kid says "must do”.

Because once you do it, you can get a badge. “I am a young botanist” badge. And this badge is given by Science Centre.

And the kid sure wants it.

It has a couple of categories. You can either become a botanist, or a zoologist or a environmentalist. But looking at the process of how to earn it. It is NOT EASY man!

At the beginning of the term, Jay says he wants to be all three of them.

And now, we figure out it is not easy. And this term, we can only accomplish one of them. Although I did bring them to the Zoo, River Safari and so on.

But after 3 weeks, we finally figure out, it is not easy project. And it takes time to do it. If the kids can do it themselves it will be ok, but the problem is, the parents need to give some guidance here and there.

That is what makes the project difficult for both me and my wife. We need to travel and we need to work. So, it will be impossible to finish all three of them.

But all of us were so happy when we finally done 23-24 stars out of the required 20 stars.

Here is what we did.

After discussion with Jay, we decided to do the Botanist project.

We have to find all kinds of seeds for him. And luckily, I bought a lot of seeds from Taobao. hahaha

Here is my seeds.

Let’s give it a box.

Place it nicely in the box.

The leaf press.

Every day, when Jay is free, he will go downstairs to pick up leaves. There are so many different kind of leaves. So, it will be parents job to match the leaves to a name.

Not an easy job. But slowly, cross referencing it here and there, and google it. We finally got it done.

Here is the plant press.

Next is to make the Eco Bottle Garden.

We even let Kay Kay help Jay Jay to make the bottle plant.

The kids love the process of making the bottle plant. Kay Kay has a larger bottle. Jay one is small. Well, just think about it, you still need to bring it to school. So, the bigger the bottle the heavier.