Arranging flowers

Age
3-6

Materials

 * Artificial flowers (for demonstration)
 * Real flowers (actual student work)
 * Container with foam

Preparation
This can be done as a group presentation.

Presentation
Note: Use artificial flowers to demonstrate. Later, when the children are familiar with the exercise, they may work on fresh flowers.


 * 1) Firstly, put the bigger leaves into the container, arranging them in a circle.
 * 2) Put in the flowers, starting from the bigger ones to the smaller ones.
 * 3) Make sure the flowers are distributed equally around the container and that there is no gap between them.
 * 4) Cover the gap with more leaves.

For fresh flowers in to vases:


 * 1) Firstly, fill the vase with water and then trim the ends of the stalks with scissors and put it into the vase.
 * 2) Encourage the children to trim the ends of fresh flowers and change the water everyday so that the flowers can last longer.