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FLOWERS
Ms. Mary Jane loves planting flowers! Until it's warm enough to plant, she has some silly flowers that dance and play music!
SCIENCE AND MATH FUN
Preschoolers can exercise those fine motor muscles while learning the parts of a flower with this fun FLOWER DISSECTION activity for small hands.
Explore flower pigments and how we can remove them to make dye and paint by SMASHING FLOWERS with a hammer!
Flowers come in so many different colors! Kids will have so much fun SORTING AND MAKING PATTERNS with their flowers, they won’t even notice they are learning math!
music and movement
Learn some new moves with Dance-A-Lot Robot and his Flower Dance.
Play Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky and create your own moves.
CREATE
Follow this RECIPE to make this scented paint and then use it to paint pictures of flowers! Your art never smelled so good!
If you don’t have any real flowers to play with, make your own with this RECYCLED NEWSPAPER art activity.
GET OUTSIDE
If we don’t want preschoolers to pick our prized roses, then it’s a good idea to plant these EASY TO GROW flowers that they can pick and play with instead!
Once those flowers have grown, head outside and gather a few to make this WIND CHIME SUNCATCHER.
Don’t forget that Dandelions are flowers, too! Head out to pick them before they go to seed and make this DANDELION CROWN!
SONGS AND fINGERPLAYS
Farmer’s Flowers
(Tune: The Farmer In The Dell)
The farmer plants the seeds
The Farmer plants the seeds
Hi, Ho and Cheery O
The farmer plants the seeds.
(Use the following verses.)
The sun begins to shine
The rain begins to fall
The plants begin to grow
The flowers smile at us
Roots and Stem and Leaves and Flower
(Tune: Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes)
Roots: Bend and point to feet
Stem: Stand up straight with hands by sides
Leaves: Raise arms up and out
Flower: Cup hands around face
Roots and stem and leaves and flower, leaves and flower,
Roots and stem and leaves and flower, leaves and flower,
Roots and stem and leaves and flower --
These are the parts of a plant.
Roots and stem and leaves and flower.