It was a gorgeous spring day and we focused on colors and shapes of flowers. The story of the day was Flowers are Calling by Rita Gray and Kenard Pak. It is a book about why flowers have different colors and shapes- primarily to call insects and bees not mammals. The group was large and the pictures were perhaps a bit too detailed for young children, but it would be a great book if you had a small group. We sang De Colores and waved scarves as though we were flowers. Then a poem and a song later the sun beckoned us outside.
Spring shouts in Seattle on days like today. You can find every color represented in the plantings at parks and yards. However, we did balanced our hike with the subtleness of the native plant garden, whose diversity tends to be in greens and shape rather than bright color which we explored in the central island. We played can you find- with color cards. And we also looked for different shapes. In the future I might even bring a bell….a cup…other objects that might represent the shape of a flower.
To play in the sun and celebrate spring we also did parachute games and circle songs and a game of “I spy.”
