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Question
What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?
Solution
Different ways we use flowers in our daily life are:
- For decorations
- As gifts (bouquet)
- For making appetizing meals
- To convey emotions
- It can release stress and anxiety
- Can make us look beautiful
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Now you were just left counting, weren’t you?
- Have you ever seen a board like this put up anywhere?
- Do people pluck flowers even when this board is there?
- Why do you think they do this?
- Should they do this?
- What would happen if everybody plucked flowers?
Children who can bring flowers may bring one or two flowers to class. Remember that you must collect only fallen flowers. Do not pluck any flowers. Make groups of three or four children and look at one flower carefully -
- What is the colour of the flower?
- What kind of a scent does it have?
- What does it look like – a bell, a bowl, a brush or anything else?
- Do these flowers grow in bunches?
- How many petals does it have?
- Are all the petals joined together or separate?
- Outside the petals, can you see any green leafy structure? How many are there?
- Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
- When you touch these, do you find a powdery thing on your hands?
What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.
Find out the names of any two flowers which are used for making medicines?
Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?
Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?
Collect songs, poems, etc., on flowers. Write them down and put them up in the classroom.
You could do this in groups of five or six each.
- Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
- Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
- Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
- Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
- After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
