Sample crafts for the "Little Blossoms" Doll Summer Camp: flower crown, daisy flower bed, backyard pond, and watering can. |
Lessons For "Little Blossoms" Doll Camp: Our flower camp for dolls includes lessons below by Chandler a teacher
who lived and taught and wrote several science readers for the Primary Grades based upon the flora and fauna of California.
- Buttercup: Lesson 1 - Ranunculus californicus, commonly known as the California buttercup, is a flowering plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a native of California, where it is common in many habitats, including chaparral and woodlands.
- Buttercup: Lesson 2 - You can also find California buttercups in Oregon and on islands between British Columbia and Washington.
- Parts of the Flower - A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. Identification chart, parts of a flower.
- California Poppy - Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight or cup of gold, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the United States and Mexico.
- Cream-Cup - Platystemon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the poppy family containing the single species Platystemon californicus, which is known by the common name creamcups.
- Baby-Blue-Eyes: Lesson 1 - Nemophila menziesii, known commonly as baby blue eyes or baby's-blue-eyes, is an annual herb, native to western North America
- Baby-Blue-Eyes: Lesson 2 - ''Baby-Blue-Eyes has several sisters, natives of California...''
- Wild Hollyhock - Iliamna is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, endemic to North America. It is related to the bush mallows of California.
- Filaree - ''The Filaree gets its green rosette placed early in the year. Then, it can send out its flowers early...''
- Miner's Lettuce - Claytonia perfoliata, commonly known as miner's lettuce, Indian lettuce, or winter purslane, is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It is an edible, fleshy, herbaceous, annual plant native to the western mountain and coastal regions of North America. How Native Americans cooked this plant.
- Wild Portulaca - ''Some people call Wild Portulaca, Red Maids‚ because she wears such a beautiful red dress, but I think more people know her by the name I use..."
- White Forget-Me-Not - This flowering plant is native North America, Alaska, Canada and the United Kingdom.
- Wall Flower - ''If you wish to study a flower that looks like a party and smells like a party, just take a wild Wall Flower...''
- Shooting Star - Primula hendersonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.
- Trillium - 'Trillium was called the Wake-Robin in the East because soon after it blossoms there, the robin begins to sing..."
- Iris: Lesson 1 - Some people call this flower the Flag, but as Iris, she is known to all the World.
- Iris: Lesson 2 - "What an odd flower Iris is! She has caught the curves and the colors of the rainbow and has brought them down to earth...''
- Blue-Eyed Grass - ''"Blue-Eyed Grass'' we call these plants because their leaves seem so grass-like...''
- Fritillaria - The flowers are usually solitary, nodding and bell-shaped with bulbs that have fleshy scales, resembling those of lilies. They are known for their large genome size and genetically are very closely related to lilies.
- Soap Root - Botany facts and how this unique plant was once used by minors, pioneers and Native Americans...
- Azalea - Wonderful odor but toxic to eat...
- Johnny-Jump-Up: Lesson 1 - ''Every boy I have ever known, whether his age was seven years or seventy, seems to have a tender spot in his heart for this golden beauty...''
- Johnny-Jump-Up: Lesson 2 - ''Not many insects visit Johnny-Jump-Up. Perhaps they find her honey too hard to reach...''
- Farewell to Spring - pollinated by butterflies
- Wild Cucumber - Root system the size of a man!
Flower/Garden Themed Doll Crafts:
- Craft a Doll's Flower Crown (and the child too...) - fit it to any doll or child!
- Craft a Daisy Flower Bed for Dolls - Fill it with your doll's favorite flowers, if not daisies.
- 30 Tiny Floral Embroidery Ideas for Doll Clothes -Use these designs to decorate an apron, dress etc. for a child and her doll's clothing.
- DIY American Girl Doll Potting Bench - An important piece of furniture for your doll to store her garden tools in and also to learn how to prepare her plants on before transplanting them.
- Daisy Gives a Paper Doll Garden Party - Cut and display lovely paper dolls in a garden setting as long as the wind doesn't carry these away.
- How to craft felt roses for your doll doll camp activities - Every doll wants a garden filled with flowers so that she may display them inside her dollhouse.
- Craft a Watering Can for Your Doll's Garden - Even pretend flowers and plants need fake water to keep them happy and growing day by day...
- Assemble a garden pond for your dolls... - This craft can look new everyday if the children wish to plan it that way.
- Antique Floral Postcards for The Dolly Mail - Dolls can send their friends and family news about the progress made in their lovely gardens through the dolly mail.
- How to craft felt carnations for your doll camp activities - Take the Spring flowers into the dollhouse to give it that special gardener's touch.
The Flower Children Garden Crafts and Flower Dolls - Miniature pages for young ones to download and print out a book for their dolls to read aloud, in simple verse. Plus new crafts, poems and stories about flowers are also included among these posts as I find them in the archive.
More Flower Poetry:
- Little Spring Verses - Short and sweet little rhymes for young students to recall and recite.
- Welcome, Little Seed! - ''Welcome, little seed,’’ said the sunshine ray, “You must burst, burst, burst, from your coat today.”
- Buttercup Land by Rose Henderson - ''Come, little girl in the new blue frock...'' and illustrated as well
- Rose, When You're Bored With Blooming - ''I'm glad that there are roses, Roses, Are you glad there's me?'' and illustrated
Flower Songs for Young Children:
- "I love tulips song" CBCKids
- evokids sing "Daisy, Daisy Daisy Bell" - about a girl named after a flower
- Here is The Beehive Song from Super Simple Songs
More Youtube for The Young Gardener:
- Let's plant a garden by SciShow Kids - Young students can learn the basics for growing their very own veggies to eat.
- ''The Tin Forest'' brought to you by Reading Rainbow - Gardens or even forests can grow with dedication and hope in places you least expect...
- ''A Flower for Ambrose'' read aloud by A Book Outside - One of my favorite books to read from my childhood.
- ''Flower Garden'' read aloud by Karen Dzwoner - How does a little girl make a garden grow in the middle of her city?
- What's Inside A Flower? read aloud with author Rachel Ignotofsky - from Brightly Storytime
- Growing a Greener World - Crafting a meadow for children to observe wildlife daily!
- Transform Your Lawn Into a Wildflower Meadow - Your backyard can become a classroom.
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