Welcome spring!

Today is the firsth day of spring, so let's go to enjoy it!

I planned a game for young kids named the gardener, which consist of one person will be the gardener, and he or she must "plant a flower" in the class. The gardener will "plant" hiding the flower. The rest of the children have to find the flower.

Instructions:

We'll imaging that we have a garden in the centre of the classroom. There, we can place some flowers. And the children will sit arround the garden, making a circle. They will be the wather, the Sun, the soil, the watering can, the shovel, the rain, the bee... And they will be the guardians and protectors of the flower, because they have all the things that the flower needs to survive.

The game starts "at night", when all the guardians are sleeping. The teacher can turn off the lights and the guardians have to close their eyes. Then, the gardener go into the garden and take a flower. He or she has to hide it somewhere in the classroom. After that, the teacher turn on the lights and the guardians start to look for the flower. To help them, the gardener can show 2 posters: "hot" and "cold". Hot: when the guardians are near the flower. Cold: when they are far away.

Materials:

- Flower: we can use a drawing made for the children, or a picture, or a plastic flower.

- Garden: we can use a drawing, or many flowers made for the children...

Extra:

- For the gardener: he or she can wear a hat or a scarf, or a watering can, or gloves, to pretend a real gardener.

- For the guardians: they can wear a pendant with the image of a Sun, or a bee, or a wathering can... to pretend a charm.