A gift that keeps on growing: these Spread the Love eco pencils grow into plants

When it comes to looking for things to buy loved ones there's always that hunt for something special - that's not going to be an offensive birthday gift. How about a pack of pencils that grow into plants? Sounds like something out of a fairytale, like Jack and the Beanstalk, doesn't it?

You might be familiar with sustainable face masks but Sprout pencils have devised a special pack of sustainable plantable pencils as an unusual 'thinking of you' gift that keeps on growing. Available in pencil form, and soon you'll also be able to snap up their sustainable eyeliner pencils too.

The five graphite plantable pencils each engraved with special love quotes – perfect for sharing your valentine with more than one. That’s one for your mom, partner, best friend, colleague, and neighbor. And when the pencils become too small to use, simply plant the end and it'll grow into herbs, veg, or flowers - like magic!

Available in eight different colors and nine seed types. Sprout pencils are the perfect gift for all ages. Great for birthdays, holidays, and other occasions. 

Write, draw, doodle and design until your pencils become too short to use. Then simply turn them upside down, plant the stub and enjoy watching them grow into fragrant herbs, beautiful flowers, or fresh vegetables. They’ll begin their second lives as a plant in as little as 1-2 weeks.

On contact with water, the green plant-based capsule dissolves and releases non-GMO seeds. Your pencil stub then acts as a plant tag so nothing is wasted.

Made from 100% natural materials including biodegradable graphite, clay, and cedar wood, these pencils sprout into forget-me-not flowers, carnations, daisy, thyme, and sage.

More than 14 billion pencils are produced worldwide each year – imagine if all these pencil stubs could turn into plants in the way these pencils do.

But if someone you love is not that lucky when it comes to growing plants then maybe Barry's Cactus Club hard-to-kill plant subscription box would be better.

But it's not just pencils, Sprout has launched a special plantable eyeliner - with its plantable Sprout®LINER - great for perfecting that winged eyeliner hack.

Sprout reveals on its website: "After the success of the plantable Sprout pencil, we asked ourselves: why not develop a plantable makeup pencil too? And now, two years later, it’s here. And it’s patented globally just like our Sprout graphite and color pencils.'

Developed in collaboration with the world’s leading makeup pencil producers to ensure the best possible result. It is exclusively made of natural materials including sustainably harvested wood and natural ingredients, including minerals, jojoba oil, and E-vitamin. And most importantly it's not tested on animals.