Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.

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Rose and China Rose are used to make colours.

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The Valley of Flowers

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Chapter 11 The Valley of Flowers
Colours from flowers | Q 1 | Page 91

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

How many differently coloured flowers have you seen? Write their colours.

Are there any things in your house which have designs of flowers made on them – like clothes, sheets, vases, etc.?

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.

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

Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.

Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.

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.

Write the names of such flowers which are used to make scents.

Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?

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.