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AIBU to think that sending a preschooler home with...

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SloanyPony · 30/03/2010 14:09

a plastic cup, with no lid, filled with tissue paper in which a broad bean has been planted, and food dye to make it all nice and pretty...

is a shit of an idea...

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ssd · 30/03/2010 14:30

doesn't sound too bad to me

Lulumaam · 30/03/2010 14:31

no, DD came home with one from pre school last year and reall enjoyed watching it grow and watering it

hobbgoblin · 30/03/2010 14:32

as shit as sending them home with bright green jelly on a flat cardboard plate as ideas go i'd say

gingernutlover · 30/03/2010 14:32

what is the problem with it exactly?

Shaz10 · 30/03/2010 14:33

Cheap and effective. A teracotta pot would really eat into the £1 a week! (or however much you pay )

Krugerellie · 30/03/2010 14:40

Why would you want a lid if the bean is going to grow? Sounds great to me.

NoahAndTheWhale · 30/03/2010 14:42

DD got a sunflower seed in a plastic cup from pre-school last year. It had soil in it.

Did the bean fall out of the plastic cup? I can see that tissue paper might not hold it in too well.

gingernutlover · 30/03/2010 14:43

ah, was the bean not organic? Is that the problem?

only joking btw, the only thing i can think is that it came home full of liquid - now thats not a great idea. We sent home bulbs planted in compost in pots but didnt water them

wheresmypaddle · 30/03/2010 14:44

Sounds cheap and fun to me- can you explain why you don't like it?

Bramshott · 30/03/2010 14:45

Oh dear - what state was it in when you found it?! I am guessing slopping tissue paper and leaking food dye, all over all his/her other Easter artworks?

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SloanyPony · 30/03/2010 14:48

I just dont like food dye in an open vessel with no lid when I have to get in a car. I could find no way of getting it home without it sloshing or spilling and dying/staining the car interior or my clothes or anything so I tossed it in the bin.

We can plant a broad bean in tissue paper when we get home. Just without food dye!

I wouldn't transport a pot of ink with no lid in a car on a bumpy journey either to be honest.

Why the dye? Why not the colour that nature intended the broad bean to be?

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Shaz10 · 30/03/2010 14:56

Actually the dye thing does sound a bit odd.

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SloanyPony · 30/03/2010 14:59

Its just so unnecessary. Sure it might make it more fun, but its not much bloody fun if it ends up staining something.

I dont mind a bit of paint. Or magic fairy dust (that's glitter to those non-believers). Mud is good.

Food dye stains so frikkin badly. One of the mums had some on her coat by the time she got to the carpark (we have to walk across a field to get to the preschool). She had a 3 year old and a baby in a puschair and she was probably careful as she could be under the circs. Glad I serruticiously chucked his

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SloanyPony · 30/03/2010 15:00

surreptitiously, even...

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stealthsquiggle · 30/03/2010 15:09

Is the dye meant to make the plant grow a pretty colour? Does that even work ?

DD came home with seeds planted in a pot - she thinks they are sunflowers but now that they are growing I am thinking beans...(Thanks for this thread, it hadn't occurred to me that's what they could be [duh])

OP - I don't think YABU in that nursery could presumably have managed to wrap them in cling film/plastic bag/something dye-proof.

Shaz10 · 30/03/2010 15:14

I can't believe they let them go with a cupful of dye! You don't need to fill the pot, just dampen the tissue.

bellissima · 30/03/2010 15:17

We got the bean in the cup (reception rather than pre-school - oops my kid is backward!) - but not the dye.

There again, we have had the dried pasta and paint calendars that crumble all over the car and then carpet, the glitter pictures that get everywhere. The baking experiment that one of them hid behind the fold down arm rest and I didn't find for months.....

fruitloafrocks · 30/03/2010 15:25

OMG how awful. They'll be making the children play next. What a terrible preschool.

ImSoNotTelling · 30/03/2010 15:34

YANBU to be giving it the at being handed an open pot of dye to carry around with you!

oldraver · 30/03/2010 15:39

We had one sent home in a clear plastic cup with paper in and the bean seed wedge in it. DS and myself enjoyed watching it grow

Ours was full of water though which i did remember to empty before getting in the car

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SloanyPony · 30/03/2010 15:40

I suspect they let the children put the water in themselves, which is why they were sloshing around.

There were some pretty peeved parents in the carpark!

It was a bit funny actually

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louii · 30/03/2010 15:44

Sounds great, DS keeps coming home with random bits of wood with nails hammered into them,yes real bloody nails, his models as he calls them. WTF am i meant to do with them?

At least the bean hassome use.

bellissima · 30/03/2010 15:48

Our bean grew twice as high as DD (with cane support) - I have the photo to prove it! (It then wilted and died the second DH planted it out in the garden).

Lulumaam · 30/03/2010 16:40

sorry, i didn't realise it was slshing about in water! thought it was in wet dyed tissue

no YANBU then!

DDs came home in a pot of soil, traditional bean growing conditions, I believe!

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