Through this project, students learn how flowers use water. Fill glasses with water and a few drops of food coloring. Show students a bouquet of white carnations and ask them to predict what will happen when the carnations are placed in the water. Set the carnations in the water and have students observe what happens over a span of a few days; the carnations turn from white to the color of the water in which they are placed. Explain to students that the flowers change colors because the water travels up the stems and into the blooms.
Have children grow their own flowers. Provide students with flowerpots and let them decorate the pots with markers and glitter glue. Instruct them to fill the pots with soil and then plant flower seeds in them. Set the pots in a sunny area in your classroom and have children water them daily. Each day, have students observe the flowers and draw pictures illustrating the changes that occur. After studying the flowers, allow children to take them home.
Use cupcake liners to create pictures of flowers. Have children color the center of a cupcake liner yellow and glue it onto a piece of construction paper. Instruct them to cut a rectangle and two leaves from green construction paper. Have them glue the rectangle under the cupcake liner as a stem for the flower and glue the leaves onto either side of the stem. Encourage students to use markers or crayons to embellish the backgrounds of their pictures.
Use children's handprints to create bouquets of lilies. Have children trace their hands on construction paper and cut them out. Help them roll the palms of the handprints into a cone; use tape to hold the handprints together. Wrap each of the fingers around a pencil. Staple a straw to the bottom of the handprint, creating a stem for the flower. Have students make a few handprint lilies, group them together and tie a string around the stems to hold them together.