Teaching Kids About Flowers and Plants
05 June 2013
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In the final days of spring, it’s the perfect time to start teaching kids about flowers and plants. Here are a few tips that Mom Trusted put together to make the learning process easier and more fun:
Grow a flower
Decorate a simple pot with paint. Try stamping colorful handprints all over it. Then, plant easy to grow flowers in it. Try daisies, since they’re such a hearty flower.
Sprout a bean
Have your kids help you place a bean in a damp paper towel in a plastic bag. Then, place in light and wait for them to sprout.
Plant a vegetable garden
Plant seeds to a veggie garden. Try out tomatoes, potatoes, peas, beans and carrots. Watch as they grow and munch on them when they’re ready! Nothing tastes better than homegrown veggies.
Sort seeds
Sort different flower and plant seeds. Use simple ones like pumpkin, sunflower and tulip bulbs.
Visit a florist
Take a fieldtrip to a local florist. Look at all the different kinds of plants and flowers and buy a bouquet so that you can give each little one a flower to hang onto.
Smell the roses
Blindfold your kids and have them take turns smelling different types of flowers. Older children can also turn it into a guessing game and try to name the flowers they’re smelling.
Sources:
-“How to teach your child about flowers” Yahoo! Voices
-“Interactive plant biology: a kid’s guide to the life cycle of a flower” Pro Flowers
-“Teaching children with flowers” BorBer
-Photo courtesy of David Castillo Dominici/freedigitalphotos.net
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