You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Teaching and plenary PowerPoints
- List of flower clues
- Instructions for pressing flowers
- Watercolour painting reminder sheet
- Template for flower petals (plenary)
Additional Resources
- A box with a lid (large enough to hold a reasonably large flower)
- A large selection of flowers of different colours shapes and sizes
- Blotting paper (approximately A4 sized) – 1 sheet per child
- Some large heavy books (to press flowers in) 1 for every 5-6 children
- Magnifying lenses (1 per child if possible)
- Water colour pallets and water pots (one between 2 children)
- Mixing pallets (1 per child)
- A range of good quality paintbrushes including some fine ones
- Cartridge paper for watercolour painting (2-3 sheets per child)
- Cheap white paper to lay samples on
- Plenary: for each group of 3 you will need:
- 6 cotton buds with the bud at one end cut off and 1 with both ends cut off
- A lump of Plasticine the size of a conker
- A pair of scissors
- A4 coloured card folded twice and marked with a petal on one side