The Outdoor Hour Challenges are weekly assignments to go with the Handbook of Nature Study, and this week's assignment was to plant sunflowers. Since we just received our sunflower seeds from Cornell University's Celebrate Urban Birds project, the timing couldn't be better.
So here is Madison, planting sunflower seeds:
Here is Kaden watering them, after they were all planted:
And where is Hunter? Well, he has been sent inside, since the question of who would get to water first started a mini war between the boys. I decided that Kaden would get to water first, since he didn't get to do as much planting, being two and all.... Hunter was not happy with that decision and started to throw a fit, so I sent him in to calm down.However, Madison did find this adorable little millipede: 
He fell off her hand right after posing for this picture, and she spent the rest of the time searching for more.
He fell off her hand right after posing for this picture, and she spent the rest of the time searching for more. Hopefully in a few weeks we will have some little sunflower sprouts.... we'll see if we can remember to water them!
2 comments:
Welcome to the challenges! Your blog is very pretty. :)
Great timing on receiving the seeds....why don't you give the task of watering to one of the boys each day since they eager to water. I might suggest a watering can for the little one, I can remember my middle son would love to water our deck plants every afternoon when it was hot just so he could fill the watering can and then water each pot and then himself. :) He never forgot and I think he started when he was about two or three.
Just a suggestion. Hope to see your sprouts up in a few weeks.
Thanks for the link.
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
Beautiful Blog and great post!!!
Boys will be boys, those mini wars happen over here all th time =o)
Glad you joined the Nature Challenges. I look forward to reading more about your in the future!--God Bless Angie in GA
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