George Washington Carver Peanut Craft

STREAM Activity: George Washington Carver Peanut Craft

Hands-On History!

Activity best for children ages four and up

February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate the achievements of Black scientists, inventors, and leaders. One of these inspiring figures is George Washington Carver, a scientist and inventor who found hundreds of ways to use peanuts and other plants. This craft lets kids create a paper plate peanut craft while learning about Carver’s work and how creativity and curiosity can lead to amazing discoveries!

VOCABULARY

  • Inventor: A person who creates new things or finds new uses for existing things.

  • Plant: A living organism, like a peanut, that grows in the ground and needs sunlight and water to survive.

GUIDING QUESTIONS

  • Why do you think George Washington Carver was interested in finding new ways to use plants like peanuts?

  • What would you invent?

MATERIALS

  • Black yarn

  • Paper plate

  • Glue

  • Crayons

  • Scissors

  • Construction paper (green, blue, brown)

  • Pencil

DIRECTIONS

STEP 1

Use a brown crayon to create your dirt outline on your paper plate and color it in.

Color the bottom half of the plate brown

STEP 2

Cover the top half of your plate with blue construction paper to make the sky.

Add a blue construction paper sky

STEP 3

Use your pencil to draw peanut shapes, leaves, and plants on brown and green construction paper.

Draw peanuts and plant shapes

STEP 4

Cut the shapes out with scissors and color them.

Cut out the pencil drawn shapes

STEP 5

Glue the plants and leaves above the dirt and glue the peanut shapes inside the dirt.

Glue down the plants and peanuts

STEP 6

Cut small pieces of yarn. Glue them onto the peanuts and dirt to make the roots of your plant.

Glue down yarn