Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.

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Yes, I know that some flowers are eaten and some flowers are also made into vegetables.

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The Valley of Flowers

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Chapter 11 The Valley of Flowers
Flowers are even eaten! | Q 1.2 | Page 90

Now close your eyes and imagine that you have reached such a place. How does it feel? Which songs do you feel like singing?

Look at the designs made by your friends.

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 differences do you find between a flower and a bud?

Draw the picture of a bud and its flower in your notebook.

What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?

Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.

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?

You could do this in groups of five or six each.

Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.