Today’s a rainy day here in Washington DC, and I can’t stop thinking how happy everything that grows must be about all this moisture.  (We’ve had a hot, dry summer!)  This made me think how cool it would be if the kids and I could actually SEE the plants growing amid all this wet stuff coming down.  And that led me to the miracle of time-lapse videos and YouTube.

Here’s one of fast-growing corn plants:

And another one of fast-growing bush beans.  Also cool, but lacking the fun music of the corn plants.

Last one for now is here.  Few kids would say that radishes are their fave foods, but the music is back and it’s really hypnotic to watch these roots grow, even after the stems and leaves have slowed down.

There’s some very cool time-lapse videos out there (as well as a lot of meh ones).  They make a great teaching tool, in addition to a fun way to keep the little guys entertained on a rainy day!