Plants and Flowers
This week’s theme is Plants and Flowers.
There are lots of wonderful creative activities you can do with plants and flowers. You can use them to paint, collage, draw. Or you could have a go at growing some of your own or spotting wild flowers whilst you are outside. You could even try making your own plant potion or perfume.
Create flower/petal perfume (mixing and exploring with water and food colouring) or make a sensory trays using plant seeds.
Flower printing with paints is great fun and can make a wonderful pattern
Do some gardening! Look after the garden by watering the plants.
Plant some cress/tomatoes/vegetables – You can use old tights or an egg shell to make a cress head
Grow flowers in welly boots
Decorate plant pots with interesting patterns
Flower crafts - make flower pictures using cupcake cases, tissue paper, handprints, cotton bud daisies etc.
You can use forks to print flowers using paint
Paint a rock to create a pebble plant or cactus
Freeze grass and flowers in water to make sensory ice blocks
Make pictures using plant leaves, flowers and other natural materials
Use daisies/ grass to count and sort
Use our Widget resources to sort and match plants.
Click on the flowers and plant with Curious George
Pinwheel flowers are very eye catching and you can see how they spin in the wind!
Stories about gardening and growing: