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Friday: Play!—Sunflower Fun
(The giveaway is a few posts down)
I was not ready to do a full blown garden this year since we have only been in our new home for a couple months but I did want to plant one more thing with the girls.
I found this beautiful book about Sunflowers and decided this is the last thing we were going to plant for the year.
We started off the day be reading To Be Like the Sunby Susan Marie Swanson and Margaret Chodos-Irvine .
It is a wonderful story :
Ikea was having a great sale, and I let my daughter pick out her own pot for her sunflower.
We decorated it by finger painting and let it dry outside for a couple hours.
We planted some sunflower seeds and cannot wait for it to come out!
She has lots of fun watering it every day and running outside to check on her flower.
What are some fun activities/projects you want to get done before summer ends?
Tags: Friday: Play!, ikea flower pots, sunflower
I’m just dying to build a fort in the backyard, but the summer heat is keeping us indoors for now!
Hey, about the sunflowers, did the book mention that when the flowers die, to leave them on so the birds can eat the seeds? my project to get done before the summer is over is to get a clothesline! I hate my dryer!
It did! It went through the seasons and at the end she made birdfeeders out of the seeds, we are going to do that too!
Love the pots…Maybe this should be my idea, because I am not feeling creative at the moment. I am doing good to go and pick weeds out of my flower beds once a week…which by the way Savannah loves doing. She doesn’t always pull them all the way out, but she always has a =) on her face when we are doing it. That is all that matters, right?