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Number Flower Garden

April 1, 2015 by Emma Gadsby 1 Comment

We have teamed up again with our favourite bloggers – Teach Me Mommy, Crafty Kids At Home, Danya Banya and Best Toys 4 Toddlers – to bring you another Rhyme Time. Our Nursery Rhyme this time is Mary Mary Quite Contrary.

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

Adventures of Adam Mary Mary Quite Contrary Number Flower Garden

We decided to make a Number Flower Garden to practise Adam’s number recognition and ordering numbers to 10. It was also a chance to use our Easter basket we purchased from Tesco. To represent the soil in our garden we filled the basket with chocolate play dough left over from our Peg Tuff Spot and decorated the edges with shells.

Adventures of Adam DIY number garden

To create the flowers I used the fantastic Twinkl printable numbered flowers. The flowers are numbered 0-31 and are A4 sized. I simply changed the printer to fit four flowers on a page in order to make our numbered flowers. I laminated the flowers so they will last longer and sellotaped them to a lolly stick. To create leaves at the bottom of our flowers I used green pipe cleaners.

Adventures of Adam Numbered flowers

So far we have practised Adam’s number recognition with me calling out a number which Adam has to find. We moved onto ordering numbers when Adam had to place each flower into Mary’s garden in the correct order. This activity was done forwards and backwards. We also talked about the number of petals on each flower and how they did not correspond with the number in the middle of the flower. Finally we talking about which number would come next. I asked Adam which number came after 3 and he had to find me the number 4 flower. I love the versatility of our Mary Mary Quite Contrary Garden and can see it being used frequently during Spring.

Adventures of Adam Mary Mary Quite Contrary Number Flower Garden

Equipment:

* Flower basket – ours came from Tesco in the Easter department

* Shells

* Chocolate play dough

* Lolly sticks

* Green pipe cleaners

* Sellotape

* Twinkl Numbered Flowers

* A4 Laminator (affiliate link)

Disclaimer: We received a Premium Subscription from Twinkl to review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

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Adventures of Adam Rhyme Time Blog Hop

Check out the other Mary Mary Quite Contrary inspired activities from:

* Flower Growth Chart // Teach Me Mommy

* Minature Garden // Crafty Kids At Home

* Crystal Flowers // Danya Banya

* Roll and Build Flower Activity // Best Toys 4 Toddlers

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Filed Under: Learning Activities, Play Activities, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: DIY activities, Fine Motor Activities, Lollipop sticks, Number Recognition Activities, Nursery Rhyme activity, Rhyme Time, Toddler play, Twinkl Resources

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  1. Pinkoddy says

    April 9, 2015 at 12:01 am

    What a lovely idea. My son needs to learn words in written form but I could adapt this idea. I am featuring on The Weekly Kids Co-op

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