This Take Ten to Write story was submitted by 12-year-old Mary. Happy reading!

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Prompt: “Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.” — Benjamin Disraeli

Plants are beautiful. Plants do not show emotions, yet they have some, like when a plant or tree gets sun or water, it is happy.

Sad Plants

Lisa’s Cactus
When Lisa’s cactus got no water, it was sad.

Esme’s Mint
When Esme watered her mint plant, she didn’t water it enough and so it was sad.

Some plants are sad if they are not watered or don’t get sun-we just don’t realize it.

Happy and Sad

Coco’s Plant
When Coco dug up a plant, it was sad, but when she re-planted it somewhere else, it was happy.

Clara’s Tree
When Clara cut down a tree, it was sad.

The Plant Organization

They helped to show what you can do to plants to affect their mood. Madeline focused on ways to make plants happy, Layla focused on ways to make plants sad, and Nina focused on watering plants.

Madeline – When Plants Are Happy

• Re-planted 2 trees with dirt in a wheelbarrow
• Planted flowers in a window planter

Layla – When Plants Are Sad

• Cooked with plants on a barbecue
• Lawn mowed some grass

The Newest Member

Nina – Watering Plants
Nina is the newest member and worked with the plant organization

• Don’t sit in a garden chair when your plants are not watered, water them
• If you have a wishing well or well, you can get water from there

Epilogue

Everyone who had made their plants sad at the start of this story understood that their plants were sad and set off to fix their plants and make them happier.