Or to make a Plant That Ate Dirty Socks out of paper to mount on a wall or decorate a door, fourth grade teacher Nancy Blake of Thomas Jefferson Elementary suggests wide green ribbon is a quick way to make the vines. To add tendrils, she twisted green pipe cleaners around a pencil to shape them into spirals. Sock-Eating Plant in Media Center.
Children add paper leaves and socks with their names and favorite books as they reach their goals.
Or this can be done in just one classroom. At Plain Center Elementary, the principal, Phil Smith, vowed to eat a sock if his students met their reading goals. They did, and he tried, chewing mightily, but it just wouldn't go down. As the children met their reading goals, they each donated a pair of new socks to hang on the plant. When I visited, their plant had 300 pairs and was still growing.