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A Fun Summer Sunflowers Homeschool Study for All Ages

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study and for having fun while digging deep into learning about these beautiful plants. Plant and grow sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study. Plant sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

A Fun Summer Sunflowers Homeschool Study for All Ages

Last year, our affection for these summer beauties reached its height just as the sunflowers reached theirs. The conditions were perfect for sunflower abundance. We celebrated sunflowers for weeks, watching them grow towards the sun, sketching them and thinking of them as we were filling up tummies with our beloved SunButter® made from sunflower seeds.

This year we planted seeds all around. Under the windows, in the beds, in the garden. Alas, either a sneaky squirrel was watching us or the rains didn’t reach the seeds at the right time. This year, we’ve only had the sunflowers right around our bird feeder. But that hasn’t quashed our enthusiasm.

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study. Plant sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

Or the gold finch’s enjoyment.

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study. Plant sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

We took an up close look at our sunflowers.

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study. Plant sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

Some needed a boost.

We noticed the rays, the individual flowers in the center or head. The leaves, the tall, tall stalk.

Enjoy these ideas for a fun summer sunflowers homeschool study. Plant sunflowers, journal their growth and make something with sunflower seeds too!

And we sketched and we painted!

sunflower journal page

We followed the instructions in the July Outdoor Hour Challenge newsletter for how to ‘fill in with color.’ What fun we had with that!

painting sunflowers

Can you see the hidden smiley face in eight-year-old’s journal page?

sunflowers with chalk pastels

12-year-old’s journal page. Entry made with chalk pastels.

Another day – Eight-year-old’s sketch with watercolor pencils (a new medium for us!)

Eight-year-old’s computer-drawn sketch (I think she likes sunflowers   🙂   )

sunflowers in a field

On another day we stopped at the local vegetable stand, hopped out and looked up close. We’ve almost run off the road staring at this field full of flowers as we drive by.

Then we came home with some luscious additions for supper.

sunflower journaling page

So, even though we thought we’d really studied sunflowers last year, all the new ideas on the handy sunflower grid at Homeschool Nature Study helped us see new parts of our sunflowers. Helped us to appreciate these beauties even more!

“The sunflower is not a single flower but is a large number of flowers living together; and each little flower, or floret, as it is called, has its own work to do.” ~Handbook of Nature Study

More resources for sunflower homeschool study:

  • Handbook of Nature Study
  • Great Sunflower Project – a fun Citizen Science Project
  • July Nature Newsletter by Handbook of Nature Study
  • Sunflower Pastel Tutorial
  • Simple Sunflowers (drawn from our study last year)
  • SunButter® sunflower coloring pages

Next up…the bee count! (See one on our sunflower in the photo above?) July 16 is when the Great Sunflower Project requests we count bees. All the details here. Then, in our near future, more sunflower study as the flowers go to seed (which means more bird watching too!). Still more to learn!

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Filed Under: Nature Studies Tagged With: homeschool, nature study, outdoor hour challenge, sunflower

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  1. All Things Beautiful says

    July 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM

    I love all the wonderful journal pages!! I am quite impressed!

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  2. Barb-Harmony Art Mom says

    July 14, 2011 at 6:24 AM

    I know that next year all those sleeping seeds are going to wake up and you will not believe you planted so many. 🙂

    I love that you make so many connections in your study….most of all to food. My favorite photo this week is the goldfinch in the sunflower, so pretty.

    Thank you so much for sharing how the newsletter helped your family go a little deeper. Perfect.

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