Welcome to the Nurturestore Sunflower Club
In 2010 NurtureStore is going to be growing sunflowers in the garden and we’d like you to join in the fun.
Right through the Spring and Summer we’ll be offering lots of ideas for you to do at home to help your children have fun and learn along with us. We’ll use the sunflowers to learn about plants, animals, seasons, where food come from and how things grow, maths and science. And we’ll let the plants inspire us to be creative with art, crafts, words and songs. There’s no obligation to join in all the activities but you’re sure to find ideas your child will enjoy.
Latest Activities:
1. Planting Sunflower Seeds – science experiment
2. Sunflower Height Chart – numbers and measurement
3. Garden Bingo – mini beast hunt
5. Sunflower Counting Game – preschool numbers
8. End of summer party – link up
To join the NurtureStore Sunflower Club:
1. Leave a comment on this page. My girls are excited to know who is joining in the club, so please say ‘hello’.
2. Join the NurtureStore Facebook Fan Page or add NurtureStore to your reader – so you don’t miss any of the activities we post.
3. Get you sunflowers seeds ready for planting. To launch the club I have 10 packets of seeds to give away to 10 of you. Leave a comment on this page by midnight (UK time) on Sunday 21st February 2010 and I’ll pick 10 of you at random to recieve the seeds. (I’ll e-mail you if you’re selected to get your mailing address.) If you’re not one of the 10 you’ll need to get yourself some seeds from your local store. We’ll be growing Helianthus annus Giant Single but don’t worry if you can’t find these, any sunflowers seeds will be fine to join in. You can start planting them in March.
4. Grab the Sunflower Club badge. If you are a blogger you can copy the code over on the left-hand column to add to your blog. Let us know if you’re writing about how your sunflowers grow, as we’d love to visit your blog to see how they’re getting on. And if you’re not a blogger you can of course still join in with all the activities and you can post a comment on this blog or on the Facebook page if you’d like to share how your plants are doing .
I hope you’ll join in and get growing with us.
29 Comments
Hello Cathy and your girls
What a great idea! My boys and I would love to join in and grow some sunflowers this year. Look forward to planting day x
This sounds like fun – count us in
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What fun! We grow sunflowers every year but this will be our first year in a sunflower club! My 5 yo son, 3 yo daughter and 18 mo son will love growing along with your kids!
I am really liking this idea, i remember growing some gigantuous sunflowers when i was younger and they are still one of my favourite flowers, i would love to join your club with my son!
My little girl who is 6 and little boy who is nearly 3 would love to join your club. They had lots of fun in the garden last year planting seeds and enthusiastically watering anything and everything they came across! Looking forward to growing (and watering!) lots of beautiful sunflowers
Ah my 6 year old son will love this and it will motivate me into action after a slack year in the garden last year!
What a wonderful idea, my two daughters 6 and 4 loved growing sunflowers last year, looking forward to more this year.
Hi Girls!
Thanks for the great idea! We are excited to be part of your sunflower Club!!!!
This sounds like a wonderful idea although i think we’re a long way off planting anything yet. We’ll be under snow until May!
Hi there, Just over here from BMB.
My six year old son and I would love to join in!
Thank you
Hi!
My kids would love to be in your club! Thanks you the great idea.
Ooh fab, I’m definitely in!
Hello gorgeous girls *waves*
xx
Ooo we grow sunflowers every year – but we’d love to join a little club!
Hi, my 6yo would love to join in.
Thanks
Cara
Hi
We would love to join your sunflower club. We are Nicola (mum) Georgia 8 and Josh 5. We do not have a blog, but we will join the fan page on Facebook!
Thank you :0)
Sounds great fun!
What a fun idea! Count us in, we didn’t do sunflower races last year, too amazed that anything grew at all! My girls aged 5 and 3 will enjoy seeing who’s grow the highest!!
Hello
We would like to join in. We already have the seeds and pots, just need to raid the compost bin and we’re set!
we’d love to be part of this xx
Are we too late to join in, we planted our seeds last week?
Amy, not too late at all. Welcome to the club!
I know I’m late, but this would be a wonderful thing for us to do at preschool. I’m jst not sure if we are in the right season at the moment – I’d have to check it out.
Hi Jenny, It would be great if your could join us. Even if you’re not growing sunflowers you might find some of the ideas can be used with your other gardening projects at preschool?
Are we too late? My 4 year old son, 2 year old daughter and I would love to join in. Lovely site by the way with lots of great ideas.
Jo, not too late at all. Welcome!
Excellent! We’ll plant our seeds tomorrow.
I love this idea! I have 2 boys, nearly 4 and nearly 2 and we planted some sunflowers in March. Can we join too please?
Hi GHerkin, You may most certainly join the gang!
We have six in a row in a planting trough all doing really well!
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