Re-growing Celery

I had heard from a friend about this idea and then saw a pintrest idea about vegetables that you can "re-grow" using the pieces you would normally throw away. I thought this was a great idea for a science experiment.

We had celery and carrot sticks for snack yesterday, so we decided to try and re-grow the celery from the base that was left.

So I explained this to the children. I told them that someone told me we could grow a "new" celery from that little piece we had left. They kind of looked at me funny at first. But when I asked them all how big they thought it might get they got excited and started throwing their hands I the air exclaiming things like "this big!!!" c " no, this big!!" and "it's going to grow up to the ceiling!!!"

This is what our celery looks like as of day 1 when we put it in the glass with water. I will keep you all updated on how it turns out, and we are going to get the children to come up with some ideas of other fruits/veggies that we can try to re-grow. :)