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PAPER PLATE SUNFLOWERS

Grade: PreK-2  •   Age: 3-8 •  Written by: Karen Rowley,
[Karen is a teacher at St. Norbert Pre-K in Orange, California]


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Objectives:

  • To teach the parts of the flower
  • To teach fine motor development

What You Need:

  • paper plates
  • unshelled sunflower seeds
  • brown paint mixed with glue
  • yellow paint
  • green construction paper
  • glue
  • scissors

What You Do:

Bring in real sunflowers for the class to see. Children may make their own sunflowers.

This activity makes a wonderful bulletin board display and provides concrete examples of the parts of a sunflower.

  1. Children will paint a paper plate with yellow paint and let dry

  2. Children will paint the center of the paper plate with brown paint mixed with glue.

  3. While the paint/glue mixture is still wet, children will put unshelled sunflower. Let dry.

  4. Children may cut stems and leaves for their sunflowers.

We have made a variation on this activity and added the child's picture.

Add to a garden theme, a picnic theme, or science theme.

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Recommended Books:

From Seed to Sunflower
by Gerald Legg, Carolyn Scrace
Large illustrations and simple text present the lifecycle of a sunflower from seed to flower.

Sam Plants a Sunflower
by Kate Petty, Axel Scheffler
A Life-The-Flat Nature Book With Real Seeds





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