Seeds! Seeds! Seeds!

I love Nancy Elizabeth Wallace's cut paper illustrations.  Seeds! Seeds! Seeds! is not the only book of hers we have read.  Bear enjoys her books as much as I do.  I found this one at our library and it fit in perfectly with our flowers and seeds science.

The little bear in the story receives 5 packages from his grandfather.  Five packages with five seed activities for him to do.  We followed along and did some of the same activities presented in the book.

First, Bear made her own seed collection.

Here's a closer look.

We planted our seeds outside.

We sequenced our seed germination cards.  I couldn't find any I liked online, but loved Nancy Elizabeth Wallace's illustrated ones in the book.  I took photos of each illustration, printed them on cardstock and cut them out for Bear to sequence.

We put bird seed out for the birds.

The only thing we didn't do was make a collage with our seeds.  We would have, but I didn't have any white glue in the house.

Lastly, I also made Bear three part cards of the plant to match the seeds in her seed collection.  You can download these cards here:

spaghetti and acorn squash  

cantaloupe and lettuce

lavendar  

cilantro and pepper

The photos are from the Flickr Creative Commons; I typed whose photostream the photos came from at the bottom of each page.