My Grandson wants to know what makes grass. How do you answer a 10yr old so he can understand ?

Question

He wants to know what grass is made of.

Answer 1

just tell him you need soil, then grass seed, water and sun, and that is how grass grows just like any other plant or flower you try and grow. And you could go to your local nursery/landscape company and have him talk to the people there I am sure they could give him all the information he needs

Answer 2

You have a great chance to teach a curious 10 year old a valuable lesson here that will peak his imagination and stay with him for many years to come. Pick up a small bag of potting soil and some grass seed. Plant two pots, water,  place one in the sunlight, one in the dark. After the seed start growing, you can show him that grass came from the seeds. You can explain to him how the sunlight reacts with the plant to produce the green color (chlorophyll), and produces food which the plant lives and grows on through the process of photosynthesis where the plant breaths in CO2 an breaths out O2. Then take the pot out of dark, the plants will be white and spindly, because they have had no sun. Put it in the sun and watch them turn green and start to grow together with your Grandson. You might have a budding scientist there.

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Answer 3

Tiny living things called cells, like we have in our bodies. You can't see them without a microscope because they are so small. Grass is green because it's got chlorophyll (a word which he'll probably forget, but it sounds exciting, and I know when I was 10, I would have liked it!), which is green, and this is needed to turn sunlight into energy, which is why plants need to be in the sun or they'll go yellow or brown and die.

If he wants to know the basics about seeds and things, grow some cress with him so he can see how it works.

Answer 4

Grass seeds. Soil. Atmosphere.

or....

God.