Flower Arrangement.

Monday (28/05/2012)

a)      Flowers.

l       Venus Flytrap is a carnivore plant that traps insects to death. They are green in colour and have got thorns on its opening of the mouth. When insects touch their opening, they would immediately close their mouth to trap. They would close for 12 months before spitting out the insect again.

l       Rafflesia is world’s biggest flower; bigger than an adult. It is stinky as it produces the smell of a corpse. Its bud take 10 months to open into a flower which will last for only 7 days. Its petal is as long as 1m.

b)      Flower Festival.

l       It’s a parade of floats decorated with flowers of various designs. Sometimes, people competed at flower arranging. It’s a festival celebrated in many countries.

c)       Picking Flowers.

l       We went round the garden, picking flowers and leaves. We have already asked permission from the Principal, beforehand. The kids searched for plants that they wanted to arrange. I would cut as not to damage the plant roots. Meanwhile some of them plucked the grass leaves and flowers. All were put in a container.

d)      Arranging Flowers.

* We cut a water bottle to make into a vase. The class was divided into 2 groups and they arranged into 2 different vases. There was a shorter vase and a taller vase. Some longer plants were arranged in shorter vase while shorter ones in a taller vase. Thus, after finished arranging; we discussed how to improve the arrangement. We poured out everything. We added long leaves first, then some shorter plants and finally some Ixora flowers.