Cardboard Botanical Flower Press
Professor O will help you learn: Children discover botany, plant preservation, and evaporation by building a portable pressing frame for garden finds. Pressing flowers demonstrates how removing moisture preserves organic structures and pigments.
Play through the project step by step, with narration read aloud.
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Tap any step to play from there — the narration plays inside the player.
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