Bin 1: Build-A-Garden
Build-a-Garden helps children learn about the structure and shape of flowers in a fun and creative way. Kids can learn how to plant and water flowers. The flower garden building toys also help children with color recognition and counting, while inspiring their imagination and creativity, promoting hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and logical thinking ability. Recommended for children age 3+.
Early Learning Standards Met:
North Dakota - Perceptual, Motor, Physical Development, Creative Arts, Social, and Emotional Development.
Minnesota - Physical and Movement Development, Creativity and the Arts, Social and Emotional Development, and Approaches to Learning.
Do Together
Ideas for how to use this bin:
- Create your own garden using your imagination
- Show a pattern of flowers
- Put flowers in order from tallest to shortest, and shortest to tallest
- Build flower bouquets
- Build a garden as a group: create a flower individually, then place your flower amongst the others in a full garden. Flowers can be grouped together by color, height, number of petals/leaves, etc for pattern recognition
Watch or Play Together
Use this media connection to spark interest, model skills and approaches, or explore a concept:
- KidVision | Flower Shop (Video 8:18)
- Flowers for Mom | Dinosaur Train (Video 1:49)
- For Parents: Things That Grow (Learning Collection)
Talk and Wonder Together
Maximize learning using these prompts during or after the activities:
- What is your favorite color flower?
- What is your favorite flower?
- Can you create a flower garden?
- Can you make a pattern?
- Can you name the different parts of a flower?
- What do flowers need to grow?
- What are different ways that plants are helpful to animals?
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