Story Time: F is for Flowers
Story Time: F is for Flowers
It’s spring! The sun is out, the birds are singing, and we can all be on the lookout for flowers. Spring can seem like a magical time for kids and a big part of that magic is flowers. Looking for the green leaves and stems poking out of the dirt, finding the buds swelling on the ends, and then watching the flowers bloom.
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. in the Community Room or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Activity Room.
Ages 3-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Watching a seed turn into a plant is a magical experience for most children. They are fascinated by the process. In the books read today, children learn about nature when they understand that plants need water in order to grow. – Lambert
Activity
Read Don’t Touch That Flower by Alice Hemming. Ask children to act out the parts of the different characters.
Books Presented
Huck Runs Amuck! by Sean Taylor
The residents of North Skettykolk are no match for a visiting mountain goat with an enormous appetite for flowers.
Don't Touch That Flower! by Alice Hemming
The Digger and the Flower by Joseph Kuefler
From the acclaimed author/artist of Beyond the Pond and Rulers of the Playground comes a breathtaking new book with a powerful message about the environment, perfect for fans of Peter Brown’s The Curious Garden and Kadir Nelson’s If You Plant a Seed. Each day, the big trucks go to work. They scoop and hoist and push. But when Digger discovers something growing in the rubble, he sets in motion a series of events that will change him, and the city, forever. “This story contains bold graphic illustrations and a wonderful message about the environment.
Grow Flower, Grow! by Lisa Bruce
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
There’s Something in My Garden
There’s something in my garden
Now what can it be?
There’s something in my garden
That I can’t really see.
Hear its funny sound…
RIBBIT RIBBIT RIBBIT
A frog is what I found!
RIBBIT RIBBIT RIBBIT
Repeat with:
MOOO MOOO MOOO, a cow is what I found!
MEOW MEOW MEOW, a cat is what I found!
QUACK QUACK QUACK, a duck is what I found!|
BAAA BAAA BAAA, a sheep is what I found!
Adapted from Storytime with Miss Jennifer
5 Pretty Flowers
5 pretty flowers in the meadow grew.
“Hmmm,” I said, “I bet them smell pretty too!”
I bent down to sniff (sniff big)
But they tickled my nose!
Ah-CHOOO!
Oh no! Away one flower blows.
Countdown: 4,3,2,1
Source: Jen in the Library
Flowers Growing
Tune: Here We go Round the Mulberry Bush
This is the way we sprout our roots,
Sprout our roots, sprout our roots.
This is the way we sprout our roots,
When springtime is here.
This is the way we pop through the dirt,
Pop through the dirt, pop through the dirt.
This is the way we pop through the dirt
When springtime is here.
Verses:
This is the way we stretch and grow.
This is the way we shoot up so tall.
This is the way we open our buds.
This is the way we bend in the breeze.
This is the way we smile at the sun.
Source: Lady Librarian’s Literacy, Lifestyle and Lookbook Log
Dig a Little Hole
Dig a little hole,
(pretend to dig)
Plant a little seed,
(pretend to plant)
Pour a little water,
(pretend to water)
Pull a little weed
(pretend to weed)
Chase a little bug
(shoo with hands)
There he goes!
(wiggle finger away)
Give a little sunshine
(arms circle overhead)
Grow a little rose
(pretend to hold flower and smell)
Source: Lady Librarian’s Literacy, Lifestyle, and Lookbook Log
Crafts and Activities
Flowers Coloring Page
Spring Flower Craft
Additional Books
Ten Magic Butterflies by Danica McKellar
Koala and the Flower by Mary Murphy
Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris
Once Upon a Cloud by Claire Keane
While thinking very hard about the perfect gift for her mother just before she falls asleep, Celeste is blown way up into the sky by the Wind, where she meets the Stars, the Moon, and the Sun, and when she awakens she finds exactly what she sought.
