Group 2
Jake Smith
Patric Aldred
Ravi Arimilli
Danny Smith
Aileen Zhao
• Package includes one seed of a variety of choices of plants, a small block planting medium, and a little booklet of teaching kids how to grow these plants.
• The idea is to get kids to be environmentally aware.
• This spring has been declared the
Environmental semester.
• Pumpkins
• Sunflowers
• Lima bean
• Oak (acorn)
• Watermelon
• Redwood
• Tomato
• Corn
• Willow
• Dogwood
• Wild flowers
• Maple
• Apple tree
• This toy is not made out of petroleum-based products.
• The planting medium chosen is vermiculite,
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• Other Happy Meal Toys eventually are thrown away to contribute to land fill wastes, but our idea will actually help the environment
• Learning
• Giving responsibility to kids, feel important
• Parent and child bonding in this project.
• Want to collect all the different plants
• Non gender-specific
• Seeds, bought in bulk, are inexpensive ~$.03
• The potting medium would cost a couple dimes
~ $.30
• Packaging is minimal ~ $.01
All seeds are nontoxic and completely safe for children.