Preschool Plant Activity - Create a Valentine Bouquet with your Preschooler

You and your preschooler can create a personalized valentine’s bouquet for a loved one, or simply for your dining room table. Not only will your preschooler be creating a great gift, but with this preschool plant activity, your preschooler will be learning how water moves up a plant. They'll be learning the importance of water for plants with this preschool plant experiment. 

 

 

How water moves up plants such as flowers

How colors mix to create new colors

 

 

A dozen white daisies or chrysanthemums

A few cheap glass vases or cups

Food coloring (caution: food coloring stains easily)

Water

Scissors

Ribbon

 

 

Step one: Add water to your vases.

 

Step two: Add a few drops of food coloring to your vases, whatever colors your preschooler wants. You may want only two different colors for your Valentine’s bouquet or six different colors. You will need separate vases or cups for each color choice. Have fun with this step—let your preschooler mix colors and learn how different colors are created. 

 

Step three: Cut the bottoms off your flowers and quickly put them into your vases or cups.

 

Step four: Wait a few days. Over time, the colored water will move up the plant, coloring the petals of the flowers. 

 

Step five: Take the flowers and recombine them into one big bouquet. Tie the flowers together with your ribbon and give your Valentine’s bouquet as a gift or use as a decoration.