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Purchasing Flower Power

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students fabricate decorative flowers to serve as a sales commodity. They assign value and prices to their flower stems. Students estimate and calculate costs using decimal points and place values in order to keep within a budget they...
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Sponge Painting Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore the shapes and colors of spring with a flower themed painting project. Included here are a list of materials and the instructions needed to execute an art lesson plan on sponge painting flowers. Tip: Use in conjunction with a...
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Stained Glass Flowers

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Elementary and middle schoolers create decorative flowers using wire armatures and a special paint that remains flexible when it dries. The results from this project are stunning, but the materials needed may be tough to track down. An...
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Bio Inspired Design Paper Flowers

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Can paper flowers have some of the same properties as real flowers? First, learners investigate how water is absorbed into a flower through capillary action by using real flowers, yarn, and paper. Then, they have an opportunity to create...
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Flower Painting/Printmaking

For Teachers K - 2nd
Using old or donated flowers, little learners create flower prints. They discuss the colors found in nature, paint a background, and then create flowers for their pictures by dipping and pressing real flowers onto their paper. 
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Pop Bottle Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make flowers from art materials. They use construction paper and paint to create a t-shirt with the flowers on it. They use a pop bottle to create the petals.
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Long-Stemmed Lilies

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine Easter traditions and symbols. They investigate botanical information about lilies,such as numbers and shapes of petals, sepals, stamens, pistils and create an accurate replica pot of lilies.
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Box Bouquet

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of of annuals and perennials. They compare the structures of plants such as stems, roots, and leaves. They draw a chalk flower pot, cut it out and glue it to a background using Crayola...
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Smiling Flowers Bulletin Board

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create paper plate flowers using basic art supplies, digital pictures of themselves, and "stems and leaves" in this Art-based lesson that incorporates digital technology. The lesson is ideal for use during the spring months.
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Tissue Paper Flowers For Valentines Day

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students make a Valentine's Day gift. In this gift giving lesson, students make a bouquet of flowers out of tissue paper to give to a love one.
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Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - Higher Ed
Learners create flowers out of coffee filters, green construction paper, pipe cleaners, scissors, and glue in this quick and easy pre-Kindergarten lesson for Spring time. The lesson is broken down into six short steps with clearly...
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Abstract Flowers Inspired By Georgia O'keeffe

For Teachers K - 12th
Students create "abstract flowers" using the artwork of Georgia O'Keefe and knowledge of warm and cool colors in this Art lesson plan for grades K-12. The lesson plan includes a short recommended book list and a biography of Georgia...
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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss flowers and their parts, examine works by Georgia O'Keeffe, and draw, color, or paint large flowers.
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Filter Fun Flower

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a flower out of a coffee filter and decorating gels. In this flower lesson plan, students display these flowers in their classroom windows.
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Six Plant Parts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a harvest burrito out of fruit, flowers, roots, stems, and more. In this plants lesson plan, students go out into the garden and identify the 6 plant parts.
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Make Your Own Flower Garden

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Get into art with a little activity on flower parts. The class reviews basic information regarding flowers and then they use a paper mosaic technique to create visual representations of the lovely plants.
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Paper Plate Sunflowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
A great way to recall the parts of a flower is to make one. Little learners create sunflowers out of paint and paper plates. They also discuss and label the various parts of their flowers. 
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Muffin Flowers

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use construction paper to create muffin flowers. They use muffin tray cup liners and draw flower stems and leaves on the paper. They use the muffin liners for a 3-D effect.
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Fabulous Fantastic Flowers!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars study flowers and identify their major parts. In this flowers lesson plan, students research flowers, learn about their life cycle, label their major parts, and make tissue paper flowers.
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Water Bottle Flowers

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create recycled art. In this visual arts lesson, students follow the provided steps to create their flowers made from recycled water bottles.
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Dyed Flower Garden

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create a dyed flower garden. In this art lesson, students read the book Tiny Seed and cut flowers out of tissue paper to create a paper flower garden.
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A Sweet Flower!

For Teachers Pre-K
Students create a flower made of candy for a special person. Students glue hershey kisses bottom to bottom, wrap them in cellophane, tie ribbon on them and give them as gifts.
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Bigger Flowers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students observe and compare real flowers and artists' paintings of flowers. They discuss a flower and its parts. Students discuss the color (color wheel) and are introduced to new vocabulary. They draw, color, or paint a large flower...
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Yellow Days: Studying Vincent van Gogh's Painting

For Teachers K
Students examine the painting, "Sunflowers," by Vincent van Gogh noting the use of the yellow color, the wiggly lines, and the "globs" of paint used to create the picture. Pictures are painted using van Gogh's image as a model.