Dandelion
Materials:- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Safety Scissors
- Paint or Markers
- Cut two yellow circle (one about an inch smaller than the other. Next cut a brown circle (about half the size of the largest yellow circle) Glue the circles from largest to smallest. Next use Safety Scissors to fringe the yellow circles (causing them to look like dandelions) For added fun make stems for the flowers as the same height as your children.
Flower Match
Cut out several flowers with different number of pedals on them. Have your children put them in order of number of pedals or match the ones with the same number of pedals. Additionally you can cut them out of several colors and have your children match them by color.
A Seedlings Song
I am only now a seedling planted with hands so very youngI have but just one wish, to reach and touch the sun
My little leaves are fragile, my stem is very new
My roots can barely hold me up, but you can help me through.
I need only a few things, to keep me alive and well
Some water, love and sunshine, Then time will surely tell.
If my leaves look kind of droopy, something to drink will do the trick
And feed me a little fertilizer, to prevent me from getting sick.
This pot I live in now is a temporary hold;
I'll need to be replanted, as I will soon grow old.
The hardest thing to do my friend is to sit and watch and wait
For the wonderful surprise I'll bring, Please be patient and have faith
For your effort, love and support will all be over soon;
Visit me in a month or two and I'll reward you with a bloom.
But please don't cut me down I can surprise you once again,
Let me finish my flower and seed and next year, I'll be back my friend.
Planting Flowers
Give your children fake (silk or plastic) flowers. Let them take these out onto
the playground and pretend to pick and plant them.
Flower Garden
Eve Bunting, Kathryn Hewitt