- Hi, I'm Nora Peters.

I'm the Director of the Melville Community Library.

And this is my teachable moment.

Spring is here and today we're going to be celebrating by making Seed catalog collages.

You can request these catalogs for free from seed companies but you might already have a couple of lying around your house.

What we're going to do first is take some time to flip through the pages.

Look at the different shapes, sizes and colors of the plants and vegetables.

When you find something that you like, carefully rip out the page and take a pair of scissors and cut out what you're interested in.

This is a great place to work on our scissor skills.

You might even find something surprising like this yellow cauliflower.

Once you have a nice collection, you can start your collage.

We can sort our pieces by shape, size, color type or maybe even make a silly face.

That's my favorite thing to do.

You can make collages like this out of anything.

Old newspapers, recycled magazines, even grocery store coupons.

The most important thing is to be creative and have fun.

- IQ Smart Parent Teachable Moments are funded in part by the Grable foundation.