Use games to teach children flower recognition.
Turn an inexpensive bunch of silk flowers and a handful of magazine pictures into a variety of fun, educational games that teach kids recognize and identify different types of flowers.
Flower Bingo
Help kids learn to identify different flower types with this game. Cut out pictures of roses, daisies, geraniums, sunflowers, carnations, lilacs, tulips, crocuses and other flowers from magazines. Easily identifiable flowers like roses and tulips work best for a young child's game. Challenge older children by using pictures of less common flowers, like heliotrope or trillium.
Make several photocopies of each flower picture. Download blank Bingo cards from the DLTK-Kids website. Glue photocopied photos to the cards, ensuring that no two cards have all the same flowers. Glue original flower cutouts to slips of paper. Write the name of the flower on each slip. Fold the paper and store in a plastic sandwich bag. Use buttons or small squares of scrap paper to cover squares during the game.
To play the game, select one child to be the "caller." Ask the other children to pick a Bingo card. The caller picks a slip from the plastic bag and calls out the flower name. If the children cannot immediately identify the flower, the caller can show them the photo on the slip of paper. If a child has the flower on her Bingo card, she covers it with a button or square of scrap paper.
The caller pulls another slip of paper from the bag and gives the name of that flower. Play continues until one child wins the game by covering all spaces on his card.
Daisy, Daisy, Rose
You will need at least eight children to play this game, one silk daisy for each child and one silk rose. Select one person to be the "honeybee." The rest of the players sit in a circle. Each child should be at least 12 inches away from the other kids.
The honeybee walks around the outside of the circle, tossing a daisy in front of each child. When she tosses the rose, that child jumps up and chases her around the circle. The honeybee tries to return to the tagged person's place and sit down without getting caught. If she is not caught, the tagged person becomes the new honeybee.
Kids pick up flowers after each round and give to the new honeybee. Play continues until all children have been the honeybee at least once.
Flower Toss
To play this game you need four different silk flowers and large matching pictures cut from gardening magazines or downloaded from the Internet.
Put pictures on the ground approximately a foot apart. Designate a standing area eight feet away from the closest picture.
Kids take turns throwing each silk flower, trying to make it land on its matching picture. If a child succeeds, he must name the flower. He earns a point for each flower he matches.
After throwing all flowers the child tallies his points and gives the flowers to the next player. Play continues until everyone has thrown flowers. The child with the most points wins the game.
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