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Planting A Rainbow
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Ingredients:
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| Garden To Go
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| Planting A Rainbow
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| Sunflower Seeds included
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Directions:
Read "Planting a Rainbow" by Lois Ehlert. Plant your garden with your child using a rainbow of flower starts or seeds and the Garden To Go kit. Help them design the layout of the garden. (A future architect?) Have them dig the holes, put the seeds in and cover them up. Have the children predict what is going to happen to those seeds. This helps create a critcal thinker!
Here are some extensions:
1. Have them water them. This teaches them the science concept: Every living thing needs three things: water, sunlight and air.
2. Measure the plants weekly and chart the progress. This teaches the child measurement and charting. It also teaches them the different growth of different plants. Why does carrotts grow faster than potatoes?
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Credit:
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| "Do not then train youths to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each." |
| "I found I could say things with colors and art that I had no words for." |
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