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प्रश्न
Are any special flowers used on certain occasions/festivals by your elders? Make a list of different occasions and the flowers used at each.
| Occasion/Festivals | Name of flower |
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उत्तर
| Occasion/Festivals | Name of flower |
| Friendship day | Pink and Red Rose |
| Birthday | Rose, Tulip |
| Marriage Anniversary | Bouquet |
| Valentine Day | Red Rose |
| Cemeteries | Bouquet |
| Religious ceremony | Marigold |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Now close your eyes and imagine that you have reached such a place. How does it feel? Which songs do you feel like singing?
Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.
Children who can bring flowers may bring one or two flowers to class. Remember that you must collect only fallen flowers. Do not pluck any flowers. Make groups of three or four children and look at one flower carefully -
- What is the colour of the flower?
- What kind of a scent does it have?
- What does it look like – a bell, a bowl, a brush or anything else?
- Do these flowers grow in bunches?
- How many petals does it have?
- Are all the petals joined together or separate?
- Outside the petals, can you see any green leafy structure? How many are there?
- Inside the petals, in the middle of the flower, can you see some thin structures? Write its colour.
- When you touch these, do you find a powdery thing on your hands?
You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.
What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?
Find out the names of any two flowers which are used for making medicines?
Let us sing this song -
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”
Do you or anybody else at home know other such songs?
Have you ever seen anyone selling flowers anywhere? If there are any flower-sellers nearby ask them these questions and write -
- What are the different flowers that they sell? Ask them the names of three flowers.
- Where do they bring these flowers from?
- Why do people buy flowers?
- In what forms do flower-sellers sell their flowers? Look at these pictures. Tick against those forms that you have seen.
Any other form that you have seen - - Have you seen flowers offered at many religious places?
- What do we do when they dry up?
- How will you use them?
Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.
- Find out the prices of these different forms.
One flower ______ One garland ______ One bouquet ______ - Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
- Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?
