My husband Ben, coaches high school baseball.  Did you know that on your resume for coaching you need to indicate whether you “spit seeds” or not?  I guess it’s a prerequisite for coaching the sport of baseball, who knew????  Well baseball season is over, but for some reason, spitting season is not.  Just for the record, I am not a fan of seed spitting.  I will, however, tolerate this as I live with four dudes and I’d much rather they spit seeds then spit ANYTHING else…  Needless to say, the seed spitting habit has brought about a few questions around our house… Where do sunflower seeds come from?  Where do sunflowers grow?  How big do they get?  Should we pick some?  As you know, I like to use every opportunity I can as a teachable moment, so  Daddy’s “habit” was turned into a quick lesson on sunflowers.  This project came about after our lesson!  To duplicate the project you will need:
white construction paper
Yellow & green tempera paint & brushes
white glue
sunflower seeds
I simply painted my boys hands with the yellow paint and lightly pressed their gooey fingers on the paper to make a hand petal! Â I repeated this four times in opposing directions to mimic the shape of a flower. Â I then let them paint their own stems and leaves. Â Once our pictures had dried we used white glue to attach a few (don’t worry Daddy) of Mister’s sunflower seeds to the center of our flowers… Â Viola, handprint sunflowers! Â I think we’ll keep these up all summer, they are so sunny!
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