How Did You Use That?!?! The many uses of coffee filters...

Recently some folks around the country have emailed me about a recent post - the Bumblebee one.  They thought using coffee filters for the bumblebee wings was clever.  I could probably think of over 500 uses for coffee filters!  They are cheap...plentiful...and I love them!

A few weeks ago we learned about planting seeds and what seeds need to grow.  Guess what?  I used a coffee filter in this class project, too!  It's actually interactive...

We bunched up the coffee filter to look like a flower bud...and later it opened up and bloomed into a flower.

To those of you out there who emailed...thanks...and here is another example for you:

To make this project, you will need:
1.  One coffee filter (the flower bud/blossom)
2.  One straw (the stem)
3.  4-5 small pieces of yarn (the roots)
4.  Two leaves (we die-cut ours from old wallpaper)

This was a class discussion lesson, and it was completed on a large piece of chart paper.  I made a line that distinguished the ground, allowing the children to see what was below ground and above.