Growing Things

Books

  • The Carrot Seed by Kraus
  • Planting a Rainbow by Ehlert
  • Flower Garden by Bunting
  • Rain by Kalan

    • Songs

  • You are my sunshine
  • The Isty-Bitsy Spider
  • Rain, Rain, Go Away

    • Activities

  • Plant seeds
  • Draw rainbows
  • Make flowers out of paper plates
  • Make cherry blossoms or forsythia by giving each child a piece of paper with a tree or branches drawn on it and little squares of pink or yellow tissue paper. Just run a glue stick along each branch and have the kids stick on the paper with their fingers.
  • Five Little Flowers Finger Play

    • Five Little Flowers (Hold up one hand)

    Standing in the sun

    See their heads nodding (move fingers)

    Bowing one by one (Fold fingers down one at a time)

    Down, down, down

    Falls the gentle rain (Make rain with other hand)

    And the five little flowers

    Lift up their heads again (hold up finger flowers again)

    Snacks

  • Sunflower seeds
  • Carrots
  • Apples, pears or oranges cut cross-wise so they look like flowers
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