'Seeds' Home Learning Ideas

Visits and places to explore: (the links in green are free attractions!)

• Natural History Museum - Sensational Butterflies Exhibition (linked to flowers/habitats)
• Wisley Gardens - an extensive range of plants and flowers
• Visiting places such as Frensham Ponds, Pains Hill Park, Savill Gardens and Virginia Water and going on a plant nature trail!
• Visiting a local garden centre such as Longacres or Notcutts

*Please note as much as we encourage these wonderful visits and think they are fantastic learning experiences, if you wish to visit these please do so at weekends, evenings or during the holidays - we really don't want your little ones to miss any school learning!*

Activities to do at home:

Click on the text below the pictures to find resources and instructions as to how to carry out these lovely flower related activities at home!

Creating their own seed mosaic!

Use seeds to decorate items around the house!

Great books linked to 'Flowers': (the books in green can be loaned from Staines or Ashford Library)

• Dexter Bexley and the big blue Beastie by Joel Stewart.
• Ten thousand poisonous plants in the world by Paul Rockett
• The first Slodge by Jemi Desmond
• Naked Trevor by Rebecca Elliott
• Lulu loves flowers by Rosalind Beardshaw
• The Magic School Bus Plants and Seeds by Joanna Cole
• The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle
• Counting in the Garden by Kim Parker
• It could still be a flower by Allan Fowler
• Grow Flower, Grow! by Lisa Bruce