Sunflower Study
This post is a week late, but our computer was down last week so I am doing a little catching up. The sunflowers were just perfect for our sunflower challenge. We were also delighted to find a lady bug larva crawling around on the ray petals of the above flower.
We were able to see the flower accomplishing its task- due to the fact that they were attracting numerous bees. The bees caused the boys to not want to get too close, but they were able to see the separate flowers that make up the whole sunflower.
They enjoyed pulling back the florets and spying the seeds underneath. This has been a helpful study because we have other composite flowers in our yard and around town that the boys are able to compare with the sunflower.
After finishing our study we did a watercolor of Van Gogh's painting, Sunflowers in a Vase.
2 comments:
Your sunflowers are just perfect....the larva was an added bonus.
I am glad to hear that they enjoyed their little "dissection" project.
Great job on completing the study with a watercolor of sunflowers.
Thanks again for sharing your link,
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
Oh, how fun! I think we will definitely be doing nature studies and journals in the near future. Thanks for the great ideas. I miss you!
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