Gardens.pdf

Gardens

Kit Contents

Books

Tops & Bottoms

Janet Stevens

Carrot Seed

Ruth Krauss

The Surprise Garden

Zoe Hall

Oliver’s Vegetables

Vivian French

Pickin’ Peas

Margaret Read McDonald

The Little Scarecrow Boy

Margaret Wise Brown

Growing Vegetable Soup

Lois Ehlert

The Enormous Carrot

Vladimir Vagin

Planting a Rainbow

Lois Ehlert

The Giant Carrot

Jan Peck

Ten Seeds

RuthBrown

All About Seeds

SusanKuchalla

Jack’s Garden

HenryCole

Fingerplay/Song

The Seasons of My Garden

(Can be sung to the tune of Baa Baa Black Sheep)

In winter , my garden lies under the snow. (Spread hands, lower them

like snowflakes)

It‘s far too cold for plants to grow.

(Pretend to shiver)

In spring , the earth wakes from it’s sleep. (Rub eyes, stretch arms)

I plant my seeds …...deep, deep, deep.

(One palm above other)

In summer, I watch my seedlings grow,

(Raise hand above floor)

I weed and water, and pick, and hoe.

(Pretend to hoe)

In autumn , my pumpkins are ready to eat, (Make a circle of arms)

Pumpkin pies and jack-o-lanterns—what a treat! (Rub tummy)

Susan Pflug

Make Your Own Seed Packet Shakers:

Laminate empty seed packets or cover with

clear plastic adhesive. Pour a small amount

of beans or rice into each packet. Tape

closed with strong tape. Shake the packets

to accompany activity songs.

Cassette

One Light, One Sun

Raffi

Seed Packet Activities

Use the laminated seed packets in this kit in several ways. Here are a

few, and you may think of others.

Toys

Flowerpot Glove Puppet

Watering Can Glove Puppet

♦ Have the children sort them by vegetable and flower. Have two

baskets or boxes—one for vegetables and one for flowers..

♦ Have the children sort them by color. Ask them to find red flow-

ers, green vegetables, white flowers, etc.

♦ Count them in various ways. How many flowers are there? How

many purple vegetables?

♦ Talk about the children’s favorites among the packets.

♦ Pass out the seed packets and sing “The Garden Seed Song” on

page 2.

♦ Use them as shakers to accompany other music.

Flannelboard Activity

Color Garden

Seed Sorting Activity

30 Laminated Seed Packets

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Working in the Garden

(Tune: Shortenin’ Bread

or perform as a fingerplay)

Dig that garden,

(Pretend to dig or hoe)

Dig it deep.

Pile the dirt up

In a heap.

Chorus:

I’m makin’ my garden

Care-fully.

I’ll watch it grow up (Hold hand above head)

Just like me!

(Point to self)

Plant those seeds,

(Pretend to plant seeds, one by one)

In careful rows—

Hope my seeds

Will grow and grow.

Chorus

Pull the weeds

(Pretend to pull weeds and toss over

shoulder)

Don’t miss one—

It sure is hot

(Fan face with hand)

Garden Implements

Bring a variety of garden tools

to class to show the children.

Tell them the name of each tool

and the task for which you

would use it. Let the children

look at them and touch them,

and if you have a place outside

where the soil can be dug, let

them try using the tools.

Supervise them carefully and

do not let the children handle

sharp tools.

Out in this sun!

Chorus

Water my plants

(Pretend to water with a watering can)

With a watering can—

They’ve grown a lot

Since I began.

Chorus

Bugs are making

My garden sick,

Get them off

With a flick, flick, flick! (Pretend to flick bugs off leaves)

Chorus

Suggestions:

Hoe

Shovel

Garden hand trowel

Hat

Watering can

Gloves

Rake

Pick the tomatoes,

(Pick tomatoes with one hand)

Pick the peas,

(Pick peas with the other hand)

Pull the carrots,

(Pull carrot with both hands)

For dinner, please.

(Rub tummy)

Chorus

Bulb setter

Susan Pflug

STG!

Fingerplays and Songs

The Garden Seed Song

(Tune: This Old Man)

Give each child a packet of garden seeds.

Lead the children in the movements sug-

gested by the song. Special laminated

packets are provided in this kit. If you buy

seed packets for this activity, choose ones

with large seeds that will make a nice

sound when shaken.

Sprouts

(Tune: I’m a Little Teapot

or perform as a fingerplay)

(Have the children lie down on the floor,

curled up in a ball)

I’m a little sprout lying fast asleep

Under the garden, deep, deep, deep.

I’m going to the garden with my pack of seeds,

Shakin’ my hips and tappin’ my knees.

Down comes the rain and the sun’s warm glow.

I spread my roots

(Have children spread their arms and legs

out on the floor)

And I start to grow.

Chorus:

I give my seeds a shake, shake, shake.

Listen to the sound my garden seeds make.

Up, up, up, I grow and grow.

(Children slowly rise up until standing, arms

and fingers spread above head)

I sway around when the breezes blow.

(Sway)

I put my garden seeds on my head,

I turn around, my arms outspread.

Chorus

When it’s wintertime, down comes the snow.

(Wiggle fingers downward)

I go back to sleep in the earth below.

(Curl up in a ball on the floor)

I put my garden seeds under my chin.

I hold them tightly, around I spin.

Chorus

Susan Pflug

I put my garden seeds on my shoe.

Won’t let them fall whatever I do.

Chorus

I put my garden seeds on the ground.

I clap my hands and dance around.

Chorus

The Seasons of My Garden

(Can be performed as a fingerplay or sung to the tune of

Baa Baa Black Sheep or I‘m a Little Teapot)

In winter , my garden lies under the snow. Spread hands, lower

Susan Pflug

them like snowflakes

It‘s far too cold for plants to grow.

Pretend to shiver

In spring , the earth wakes from it’s sleep.

Rub eyes, stretch arms

I plant my seeds …...deep, deep, deep.

One palm above other

In summer, I watch my seedlings grow,

Raise hand above floor

I weed and water, and pick, and hoe.

Pretend to hoe

In autumn , my pumpkins are ready to eat,

Make a circle of arms

Pumpkin pies and jack-o-lanterns—what a treat!

Rub tummy

Susan Pflug

STG!

Flannelboard Activities

Color Garden

Included:

Vegetable Song

(Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)

(Give each child one or more felt vegetables. Talk about the

names and colors of the vegetables. Tell the children to

listen for the name of their vegetable, and to follow the in-

structions. Finish by having the children place their vegeta-

bles and flowers on the flannelboard on the last verse.)

If you have a pumpkin, stand up.

If you have a carrot, stand up.

Take your orange vegetable and put it on your skull.

Pumpkins and carrots sit back down.

Pumpkin Corn

Radish Eggplant

Carrot Turnip-

Beans Peanuts

Squash Broccoli

Tomato Pepper

Potato Flowers

(Give each child a felt

vegetable. Talk about

the colors of the vege-

tables and make sure the children know the colors of

the ones they are holding. Explain that they will place

their vegetables on the flannelboard when their colors

are named in the rhyme)

If you have a tomato, stand up.

If you have a radish, stand up.

Take your vegetable that’s red and tapit on your head.

Tomatoes and radishes sit back down.

I’m planting a garden in my back yard,

It’s lots of fun, but I have to work hard.

If you have beans or peppers, stand up.

If you have some broccoli, stand up.

Take your vegetable that’s green, and put it on your knee.

Broccoli, peppers, and beans sit back down.

I dig and I plant, I water and hoe,

But when I’m finished, I’ll have a rainbow!

It’s a garden of colors, but do you know what’s neat?

My garden of colors is so good to eat!

If you have a squash, stand up.

If you have a corn, stand up.

Take your vegetable that’s yellow and wave it at a fellow.

Corn and squashes sit back down.

On my very first row, in my first garden bed,

I think I’ll plant vegetables that are round and red .

If you have an eggplant, stand up.

If you have a turnip, stand up.

Take your purple vegetable and put it on your ear.

Eggplants and turnips sit back down.

I’ll carefully plant these seeds in a row,

These veggies look sunny because they’re yellow .

On the next row I’ll plant a great big bunch

Of orange vegetables to munch and to crunch.

If you have a potato, stand up.

If you have a peanut, stand up.

Take your vegetable that’s brown, and turn around.

Potatoes and peanuts, sit back down.

Now, Mom says I have to eat food that is green .

So I guess I’ll plant broccoli and peppers and beans.

I can’t wait for the next row to grow big and tall.

These purple vegetables are the best ones of all.

If you have some flowers, stand up.

Take your flowers that are blue, and put them on your shoe.

All the blue flowers sit back down.

These next vegetables grow under the ground.

They taste really good, although they’re just brown .

If you have a color, bring it here.

Bring your vegetables and flowers,

And put them on the board.

If you have a color, bring it here.

There’s just one more color and then I’ll be through.

I’ll plant some bright flowers, and then I’ll have blue.

My color garden is so pretty to see—

Would you like to say all of the colors with me?

Susan Pflug

(Point to the vegetables and ask the children to name

the colors)

(Note: The food shapes in the photograph were cut from

craft foam and glued with hot glue. A piece of Velcro was

hot-glued to the back of each figure. Felt can be used as

well. Make enough pieces so that each child has one)

Susan Pflug

STG!

Garden Activities

Craft

Seed Packet Puppets

Craft

Seed Art

Science Activity

Sprouting Seeds

Materials:

Empty or outdated seed

Materials:

packets

Craft sticks

Tape

Wigglyeyes

Constructionpaper

Glue

Scissors

Seeds

White glue

Construction paper

• Pour the seeds from out-

dated seed packets or inex-

pensive purchased ones into

a bowl. Use the empty

packets to make the Seed

Packet Puppets at the left.

• Give each child a sheet of

construction paper, a glue

spreader**, and a puddle of

white glue.

• Demonstrate how to make

lines and swirls of glue on

the paper, using a glue

spreader.

• Sprinkle seeds over the glue

and pour the loose ones

back into the bowl.

• Allow to dry.

Dry beans

Paper towels

Water

Small plastic con-

tainers with lids

• Give each child a small

container (such as a mar-

garine tub), a few dry

beans, and a paper towel.

• Have the child fold the

paper towel and place it in

the container.

• Have the child place three

or four dry beans inside

the folds of the towel and

pour enough water over

the towel to make it thor-

oughly moist.

• Have the child check the

seeds every day, adding a

little water to keep the

towel moist. In about six

days, the beans will begin

to sprout. The sprouts will

continue to grow as long

as the towel stays moist .

• Plant the sprouts in a large

pot or if it’s summer, out-

side in the garden and

keep them fed and wa-

tered. Observer their

growth with the children.

When the vines are sev-

eral inches long, stake

them and tie them upright.

When you have a tall vine,

tell the story of “Jack and

the Beanstalk.” Talk to the

children about how their

beanstalk started with a

few beans, just like Jack’s,

but that they needn’t worry

unless theirs grow up

through the clouds, too!

Place a cutout of a boy on

the vine. Tell the children

they are the giants. The

public library has several

versions of this story in

picture book format.

Teacher:

• Cut strips of construction pa-

per, 1/2” x 6”—4 per puppet.

• Accordian-fold or zig-zag the

paper strips, as shown.

• Cut triangle shapes from con-

struction paper for feet, and

squares for hands.

Children:

• Tape a craft stick to the back

of a seed packet, as shown in

the illustration.

• Glue wiggly eyes near the top

of the packet.

• Glue four folded strips to the

seed packet for arms and

legs.

• Glue small squares to the

arms to make hands.

• Glue triangles to the legs to

make feet.

Note: Substitute popcorn ker-

nals, lentils, rice, small beans,

and other edible seeds for the

garden seeds in this craft.

Explain to the children that

these seeds are food when

they are cooked. Make pop-

corn and serve it as a snack.

Note: If you don’t have a

source for old seed packets,

major hardware and discount

stores often sell seeds for only

a dime per pack. You can plant

the seeds or use them for seed

art and use the empty packets

to make puppets.

** Make glue spreaders by cut-

ting strips of heavy cardboard.

Throw them away when fin-

ished. Or use inexpensive

artist brushes and wash them

with soap and water when fin-

ished. Small craft sticks work

well for spreading glue.

STG!

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