SAVE THE FLYTRAP MISSION
Take your plant out of the tube right away!
No tap water. Distilled or rain water only!
Questions from Preschoolers:
How do they catch bugs if the tube has a top on it?
If they eat bugs and are kept inside, is the house full of bugs?
What if they grow bigger than the tube?
Why do they come with the wrong directions? They will die!
The biggest question of all………
How do we save them?
Scan to share this mission!
4 plus hours of sun a day
repot in 50/50 mix of sphagnum peat moss and perlite
NO potting soil, fertilizer, or miracle-gro products.
Please DO NOT play with the traps!
Our preschoolers first became interested in unusual and poisonous plants after reading Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, which inspired the creation of our Poison Garden outside the school.
While learning more about different plants, the children became especially fascinated with Venus flytraps. Their curiosity led us to Ron Dudek’s book How to Grow the Coolest Plant in the World.
The children began asking thoughtful questions about how flytraps survive, why so many seem to die in stores, and how people could better care for them. From those conversations the children decided to take action to save the flytraps!
We are now on a Save the Flytrap Mission—creating care cards to put in stores that sell flytraps and sharing what we’ve learned to help these plants survive.
Our Mission
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The books that sparked our mission.
How to Care for a Venus Flytrap
Needs 4–6+ hours of direct sunlight
Only use rainwater, distilled, or reverse osmosis water
Never use tap water
Keep soil damp using a water tray
Use peat moss / perlite mix (no potting soil, fertilizer, Miracle-gro products)
Do not trigger traps for fun
Take plant out of tube immediately
A mission led by pre-schoolers to save flytraps.
Community Partners
We are grateful to the local businesses supporting our mission by displaying the children’s care cards alongside their Venus flytraps:
Briggs Nursery Attleboro, MA
Ace Hardware Milford, MA
Trader Joe’s Milford, MA
Walmart Supercenter Whitinsville, MA
Their support is helping the children share what they’ve learned with the community and help more flytraps survive and thrive.
