Fuzzy in the Cotton Field

Fuzzy was riding in the car when he saw a cotton field. Did you know the cotton clothes you wear are made from cotton plants? Fuzzy didn’t know that.

Cotton starts as a seed that grows into a plant. Flowers grow on the plant, then fall off and leave a small seed pot called a boll. The boll keeps growing and finally splits open. This is the cotton. The cotton is picked and the seeds taken out. Then the cotton is spun to make it into thread which is woven into cloth. It is a long process to change this small piece of cotton into a shirt or dress.


This picture is of Fuzzy by cotton plants where the boll has opened. Do you see all the white things? That’s the cotton and it feels like the cotton balls you have at your house. Ask your mom or dad to let you feel a cotton ball.

Fuzzy got a piece of cotton from the field. You can feel it when he gets back home.