MAKE A ZINNIA PENCIL TOPPER OR A WHOLE BOUQUET
This craft is easy to make. You’ll need a pencil for the flower stem. If you make a few pencil flowers, you can create a really cute pencil flower pot. Just put a Styrofoam block in the bottom of a flower pot and push the pencils into the Styrofoam.
FLOWER FUN FACTS
- Flowers are a food source for pollinators like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
- There are over 300,000 species of flowering plants around the world.
- Broccoli is a flower. It’s harvested before the buds open.
- Flowers turn their heads to follow the sun across the sky.
- The Venus Fly Trap is a flower that eats bugs.
- Orchids don’t need soil to grow. They get all of their nutrients from the air.
- Not all flowers smell good. There is a flower called the Corpse Flower. It smells like rotten flesh.
- A flower called Bird of Paradise looks like a tropical bird.
- The Snapdragon flower looks like a dragon head. If you gently squeeze the sides, it looks like it’s talking.
- In Holland, many centuries ago, tulips were more valuable than gold.