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    Home » Science Experiments for Kids » Easy Flower Sensory Tray

    Easy Flower Sensory Tray

    April 6, 2016 By Emma Vanstone 1 Comment

    This super simple flower sensory tray is a brilliant way to introduce even very small children to the basic parts of a flower, and also a  brilliant fine motor control activity as the petals are quite hard to pick up with the tweezers.

    This activity is also a great alternative to a flower dissection.

    If you like this you might also like my plant science experiments for Key Stage 1.

    Flower sensory tray

    Materials

    Petals

    Stems

    Leaves

    Coloured rice – colour rice by adding food colouring to white rice in a ziploc bag, mixing up and leave to dry.

    Tweezers

    Pen

    Paper

    Instructions

    Pour the rice into a tray and sprinkle petals, leaves and stems of a flower onto the top.

    Ask children to use the tweezers to remove the flower parts and place on a piece of paper, labelling the parts as they go.

    Flower sensory tray

    Extension Ideas

    Can you put a white flower into coloured water? What do you think might happen?

    Can you use lots of different coloured flowers and sort the petals by shape and size?

    Suitable for Key Stage 1 Science

    Plants

    Identify the structure of flowers and plants

    Image of coloured rice and flower petals and other plant parts.

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    Last Updated on March 10, 2021 by Emma Vanstone

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    These activities are designed to be carried out by children working with a parent, guardian or other appropriate adult. The adult involved is fully responsible for ensuring that the activities are carried out safely.

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