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Question
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?
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Solution
Yes, I have seen people selling flowers.
- They sell rose, jasmine and dahlia.
- They bring these flowers from gardens and horticulture farms.
- People buy flowers for decoration, worship and to gift them.
Sellers sell flowers in the form of Gajra.-
Yes, I have seen different types and colours of flowers offered at many religious places.
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We dispose of the dry flowers as waste.
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I will use them to make dry colours for the Holi festival.
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