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Question
“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?
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Solution
My sister, aunty and mother know several such songs.
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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…”
Collect songs, poems, etc., on flowers. Write them down and put them up in the classroom.
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| Occasion/Festivals | Name of flower |
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- 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.
