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Question
What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
Solution
A flower is bigger than a bud. A bud shape is pointed and smaller in size, while a flower is larger and open.
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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 -
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- 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?
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- Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
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- 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.
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- You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.
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