Kits will be available at the Youth Services Reference Desk while supplies last. The activity ideas are also posted below if you prefer to use materials from home.
Cardboard Flower Pot
Materials: cardboard (a piece of a cereal box works well), wild flowers, and Wikki Stix
*Come to the Youth Services Reference Desk to pick up a kit with materials (while supplies last).*
What: Go outside and look for dandelions and other wild flowers to pick and stick through the holes of your cardboard flower pot. Use the Wikki Stix to add embellishments to your pot or to trace the outline (their wax coating will make them stick without using glue). Make more flower pots by cutting apart a cereal box, drawing a pot outline, and poking holes with a pencil.
Why: Nature offers endless moments to express creativity. This activity helps children focus on the things that grow around them and allows them to experience those colors and textures. Putting the flowers into the pot template and decorating with the Wikki Stix is great fine motor practice.
Extra ideas:
*Name the colors of the flowers in your pot, or go even farther and identify the types of flowers. Need some help identifying? Look at these flower books from the library:
Mrs. Peanuckle's Flower Alphabet by Mrs. Peanuckle
I See Flowers by Tim Mayerling
What Will Grow? by Jennifer Ward
A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston
*Sing a song while you search:
A tisket, a tasket,
Flowers for my basket.
Searching 'round, all o'er the ground,
For flowers for my basket.
*Give your finished project to someone you love or save it to use again on your next walk.
I would love to see you busy playing! Please send a picture to clewis@egvpl.org if you would like to share.