Planting a flower for Mom!

The project the kids were most excited about this week was the planting a flower for mom project!

I started off by filling buckets with the necessary supplies.

Each bucket contained:

* A set of stickers

* Flower instructions

* A photo of themselves

* A piece of muffin paper

* A flowering seed

* A clothespin

I set up a workstation for the kids to use to create their flowering pot.

Each child decorated the outside of their pot (sand bucket purchased for $1/ea) with the stickers provided.

Once the pots were decorated we headed over to the potting soil where each child filled their pot.

Once the pots were filled, we moved on to adding a flower of our own.

Each child glued their photograph onto a piece of muffin paper and attached it to a clothespin.

I then hot glued each clothespin to the corresponding flower for each child.

Each child was given a teeny tiny seed to put in their pot.

We discussed how this little seed would grow into the beautiful flower I had printed on the "How to grow" information sheet.

Once complete, I added a little water and allowed the flowerpots to sit in the sun.

This is one gift I'm sure all the mother's will love!