I thought I will tell you about my previous fancy activity with my girl. I got this one at the nursery where I volunteer and I thought I had to absolutely do it with M.
In fact, as soon as I got home, I rushed with the buggy down to Wilkinsons and bought some tulip and giacint bulbs for our experiment, it was October and now the giacints are almost ready to come out!
A BIT OF GARDENING
What you need here is:
soil from the supermarket
some flower bulbs (choose the one right for the season!)
flower pots
water
newspaper
Lay the newspaper on your floor or if you can just go outside so you do not have to clean afterwards! Let your little one put some soil on the bottom of the pot, then show him how to make a hole in the soil and let him drop the bulb in (the pointy end upwards). Cover the bulb completely with soil. Reapeat with the rest of the bulbs. Then fill up a small bottle with enough water for one bulb and give the task to pour the water to your child. In this way the child will be supervised and guided step by step, but he will have the feeling that he has done it all by himself.
Write the date on a lable and stick it on the vase.
Remember to water your bulbs regurarly helping your child in this task. Watch together all the progress of your little flowers!
In our case we took pictures of the development of our flowers and I intend to make a poster with all the sequences of the flower growth for M. to look at and learn the life cycle of a flower.
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