We are a baseball family. Our boys LOVE baseball and are picking up all aspects of the sport very quickly. This season, my husband coached our older boy’s little league teams. 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 our 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. We’ve been growing sunflowers but the big buggers take a long time to grow… We decided online research was our best way to learn quickly! Once we learned all we could about these beauty’s we made these cute projects.. 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! I repeated this four times in opposing directions to mimic the shape of a flower. I then let them paint their own stems and leaves. 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… Viola, handprint sunflowers! I think we’ll keep these up all summer, they are so sunny!
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