Materials
What to do
1. When the children need to walk silently through a common area or the library, or when moving to different areas of the room, ask them to walk with one hand placed on a hip and the other hand's forefinger placed on their lips.
2. This simple phrase helps them to remember to walk quietly and to not touch their friends.
-Nancy M. Lotzer, Farmers Branch, TX
Instructions
1. Fill the sand and water table with a variety of dried flowers. (Roses with the
thorns removed, bachelor buttons, sunflowers, and black-eyed Susans are
good for analyzing.) For individual exploration, use trays instead of the water
table.
2. Add tweezers and margarine tubs.
3. Encourage the children to analyze the parts of the flowers by picking them
apart with their hands or tweezers.
4. The children can use margarine tubs to collect the pieces they would like
to keep.
More to do
Art: Encourage the children to bring their margarine tubs filled with flower parts
to the art table and use the flowers to make a collage.
