DIY – Grow Your Own Easter Grass

Looking for quick and easy Easter holiday table decor?

Here’s an idea for you!

Grow your own Easter grass!

Not only do these small pots look great at each place setting with hidden candy in the grass, they also make nice take-home favors for your Easter guests.

If you start your pots now, you’ll have grass right in time for Easter. Don’t delay – get started today.

Grow Your Own Easter Grass

What You Will Need:

• Small Clay Pots (at least 3″ tall) with trays
• Potting Soil
• Grass Seed (I recommend Kentucky Blue Grass, or other turfgrass seeds)
• Moss Ribbon or Decorative Ribbon (optional)
• Easter Rabbit cutout (optional)
• Colored Easter Egg Candies (optional)

What You Do:

1. Fill a clay pot with potting soil. (You may want to add water absorption crystals to the potting soil to help maintain moisture).
2. Sprinkle grass seeds on top of soil and cover lightly with potting soil – just enough to cover the seeds.
3. Sprinkle a light mist of water on the seeds, and place the pot in a sunny window.
4. In a couple of days, your grass will start to grow. Continue watering as needed. Grass will mature in around 2 weeks.
5. When the blades of grass start to grow beyond 2″, trim the grass using a sharp scissor. The grass will thicken as it grows.
6. Tie a ribbon around the pot, and place colored Easter Egg candies in the pot among the grass. Use the pots as a table decoration for an Easter dinner, then send a pot home with each of your guests as an Easter gift.

Variations:

• Top the pot with the shape of a rabbit head cut out of kraft paper, or use the rabbit shown here (just click to enlarge, print, and cut out).
• Planting grass seeds in a clear vase makes for a beautiful, unique house plant. Place rocks in the bottom of the vase to allow for proper drainage, then fill the vase with potting soil. Plant the grass seeds and watch it grow! Keep the grass trimmed and watered and you have a unique indoor plant. A fun way to bring Spring into your home when there is still snow on the ground outside.
• If you have a cat, you could use wheat grass seeds for this project. Then, after Easter, let your cat eat the grass.
• Growing your own Easter grass is a fun project for children or grandchildren. Get them involved, and share their excitement as they watch the grass grow!

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