Materials
Flowers collected from your personal flower garden, or ask a local florist for a donation of bouquet of slightly damaged flowers Newspapers
Magnifying glasses
Diagram of the parts of a flower
Instructions
1. Introduce the subject of flowers and display a diagram illustrating flower parts.
2. Cover a work area with newspaper for easy cleanup and give each child or group of children a flower.
3. Step by step, pull the flowers apart looking for each scientific part. Children love to do this. (Whoever gave them permission before to destroy a beautiful flower?)4. Identify each part.More to doArt: Make a scrapbook using an old seed catalog with flowers for every letter of the alphabet. *Have each child bring in one silk flower or create an original flower with markers and construction paper and use them to create an interesting bulletin board.Field trip: Go for a walk in the neighborhood and look at flower gardens. * Go for a nature walk and look for wildflowers. * Visit a local florist.
