Overview/purpose: Seasonal, plant ID
For elementary program:
PR: Get the kids
excited to celebrate Earth Day by learning how to make seed sculptures. This fun, messy, hands-on activity is perfect
for talking about flowers, science and more.
No green thumb necessary.
For Little Listeners Story Time:
PR: Hear stories, rhymes and songs about
planting seeds and growing things. Plus,
we’ll make our neighborhood a little more colorful by creating native wildflower
seed bombs.
For Sunflowers Only
PR: Connect art and nature to
reading. This story time appreciates the
beauty of the sunflower. Explore the seeds and petals, and check them out up
close.
New words and
phrases
Unfurl, flower bud, clustered together
Suggested book
titles
Chicken Little by
Ed Emberly
Shake the Tree by Vignocchi
Little Red Hen by Byron Barton
or for a larger version, use Yummy by Lucy Cousins
A Seed Grows by Antoinette Portis
Horse and Buggy Plant a Seed by Ethan
Long
1 Big Salad: A Delicious Counting Book
by Juana Medina
Suflowers Up Close by Katie Franks
One Little Seed by Elaine Greenstein
Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry
Miguel’s Community Garden by JayNay
Brown-Wood
Hello Day by Anita Lobel
All in a Day by Cynthia Rylant
Rhymes and Songs
Mr. Sun by Raffi
All the Big Sunflowers
(Tune: Itsy Bitsy)
All the big sunflowers standing in the sun.
See their heads nodding, bowing one by one.
Down, down, down comes the gentle rain.
And all the big sunflowers lift up their heads again.
Counting Song
One little, two little, three little flowers
Four little, five little, six little flowers
Seven little, eight little, nine little flowers
Ten flowers growing tall!
See the Giant Sunflowers
(Tune: Down by the station)
Out in the garden,
late in the summer
See the little sunflowers
standing in a row.
See the happy farmer
giving them some water,
Splash, splash, splash, splash,
weed and hoe!
Craft
Activites
Flashlights as the sun, hands move with the light
Discussion about all of the types of sunflowers
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