Flowers

Still life flower drawings in kindergarten

May 11, 2011

This is the final activity we did with our flower bouquets. You can see the other posts here > painting with flowers, a flower canvas, and cutting flower stems. I have also seen many different folks share about still life drawings which made me really want to give this a try with the kids… To get this [...]

Cutting flower stems in preschool

May 11, 2011

Cutting flower stems in preschool Perhaps I should have titled this post “Attempting to cut flower stems in preschool” because child scissors don’t make much of a dent in the stems. However, one of our students figured out how to make this work…. These are left-over stems from our flower bouquets which I posted about [...]

Painting with a bouquet of flowers in preschool

May 10, 2011

Did you save the flower bouquet for preschool? I have shared how the kindergarten class made a flower canvas from a flower bouquet that was just about ready to be thrown out. Here are some additional activities to use up those flowers from the flower bouquet as well… While at one table, the children were making [...]

Save the bouquet of flowers for preschool

May 10, 2011

Did you get a bouquet of flowers recently? Are they just about ready to throw out? Well before they get too far gone and you decide to throw them out – turn the flowers into a bit of preschool fun! I went around and gathered some flower bouquets that were just about done in and [...]

Is this flower taller or shorter than a preschooler?

April 12, 2011

I happen to stop by this classroom and the teacher had a very tall paper flower sitting out on a table… The children were very excited about this flower so to build on their enthusiasm, we decided to see who (or which) was taller – the flower or the child… All the children hurried up [...]

Spring up your preschool classroom with pussy willows!

March 22, 2011

The children made pussy willows in preschool today! They started out by exploring a real pussy willow. We had to be careful because if we handled the branch too much the little buds (catkins) would fall of the branch very easily. So instead we took one of the catkins off and let the children feel [...]

Wonderful collection of flower activities for your preschoolers

April 12, 2010

A fantastic collection of flower ideas for your preschool classroom! Click on each picture to see the blog post!

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