{"id":1002,"date":"2014-08-10T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/10\/sunflower-height-recorders-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:38","slug":"sunflower-height-recorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/sunflower-height-recorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower Height Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have had great success with sunflowers in our garden this year. Earlier in the summer my children helped to plant sunflower seeds into pots, which we kept inside for a few weeks before planting out into our garden.The kids really enjoyed looking after and watering their plants and arguing over who was going to grow the biggest sunflower. Our last sunflower in now just coming into bloom and it is measuring 2.25m tall!<\/p>\n

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I really wanted to celebrate our success with an arts and crafts projects inspired by our fantastic sunflowers. We have been completing our \u201cBack to School Questionnaires\u201d as well which gave me a great idea. Instead of just writing down their height, I would help each of my three children a sunflower picture that was the same size as them.<\/p>\n

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We set off doing this activity outside as it was a nice sunny day. This turned out to be a mistake though, as it proved to be very tricky to keep the long sheets of paper firmly on the ground! My 4year old was getting particularly frustrated so we decided to bring the activity back indoors.<\/p>\n

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The downside of doing this indoors meant that we didn\u2019t have as much room to spread out three big sheets of paper at once. We decided then to work together on one sunflower picture at a time.The \u201cowner\u201d of the picture took full artistic control of their picture and the other two then assisted. This worked well when boys helped their little sister out, but she wasn\u2019t as keen to give up \u201cartistic control\u201d when we were doing the boys pictures. We got there in the end though and we were really happy with the results.<\/p>\n

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How to make Sunflower Height Pictures:<\/h2>\n