Petal Confetti

The Summer months brings an abundance of colour bursting through our gardens and outside spaces, bees and butterflies visit our flowers pollenating them as they travel through. Its a beautiful season to be part of and with the beautiful of floral displays and bursts of colour the flowers need our help to be able to keep blooming through out the months. They need us to remove the spent, dead flowers by 'dead heading them'this means simply removing the dead flower heads with secateurs or scissors. This stimulates the plant and encourages the plant to keep flowering throughout the Summer months.

The dead heads can be a great resource for play! 

Here a collection of dead headed flowers have been collected in a bowl and simply placed with a pair of scissors for children to investigating and cut up, this creates a beautiful confetti that can be used as sprinkles in the mud kitchen or as loose parts.

Recipe

• Dead headed flowers- ask parents to collect and bring in the dead headed flowers from their gardens or outdoor spaces,
• turn this into a ritual as part of closing down the nursery in the evening, allow the children to walk around your outdoor space removing any spent flowers heads ready for the next day
• you will need some scissors and bowl's to collect the petal's

*always check that the flowers are not toxic and do not cause any irritation to skin.